Displaying 1 of 1 2001 Format: Book Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014 Title: Bad boy : a memoir / by Walter Dean Myers. Publisher, Date: New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. Description: 214 pages ; 22 cm Summary: The author relates his experiences growing up in Harlem, the home of Sugar Ray Robinson and Langston Hughes, in the 1940s and 1950s. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Accelerated Reader 6.5. Reading Counts! 6.6. Contents: Roots -- Harlem -- Let's Hear It for the First Grade! -- Arithmetic Summer -- Bad Boy -- Mr. Irwin Lasher -- I Am Not the Center of the Universe -- A Writer Observes -- Sonnets from the Portuguese -- Heady Days at Stuyvesant High -- The Garment Center -- God and Dylan Thomas -- Marks on Paper -- The Stranger -- Dr. Holiday -- Being Black -- 1954 -- Sweet Sixteen -- The Typist -- Books I've Typed. Subjects: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. African American authors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Children's stories -- Authorship -- Juvenile literature. ISBN: 0060295236 (pbk.) 9780060295233 (pbk.) 0060295244 (lib. bdg.) 9780060295240 (lib. bdg.) Control Number: 423784 Local Availability (physical copies):0 (of 0) System Availability (physical copies):19 (of 23) Place Request Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Map It Large Cover Image Availability MARC Record Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
