Books by Walter Dean Myers
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review 1: I have to start off by saying that i'm not much of a reader. I normally can't get into books like I did with this one. I thought that I would just read the first couple pages then be done. I was completely wrong. I could not stop reading. It was easy for me to relate to Darius be...
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review 1: This was the first time I read anything from Myers and even thought it seemed like an easy, quick read, it took me a good time to think about all that was being said. Besides a nice little story this book teaches us a bit of history, sociology, and philosophy. It's a great read f...
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review 1: “Dope sick”Walter Dean MyersIn the book “Dope Sick” there was really only a few settings but there was a major one. I’ll talk about them all. A few settings in this book were the Home Depot, his apartment with his mom, “Dustys”. And the one that put the whole story together, the ...
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review 1: My book of choice for my review is The Cruisers by Walter Dean Myers. Zander, LaShonda, Bobbi, and Kambui are group of friends who attend DaVinci Academy for the Gifted and Talented. It’s one of the best schools of in Harlem. The four of them each have a talent for writing and cr...
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review 1: Tell me more about the characters?The characters in the book are irresponsible and not doing very well in school. The principal is a very thoughtful person and is trying to get some sense into their heads and give them one more chance. In the book , Mr. Culpepper tells them their...
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review 1: As Jeremy adds to his long list of words that describe him (whether a little brother, a son, a writer, runner, dreamer or dancer") and fist bumps his family, teachers, and friends with a "BAM," it's hard not to smile at this empowering manifesto of a young boy who is celebrating ...
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review 1: Amiri and Odette is a modern retelling of “Swam Lake” with Amiri as a popular, basketball player “prince” who has fallen in love with a doomed “swan” who is tied to a drug-dealer. Myers employs a sentence-fragment poetry format paired with Steptoe’s sometimes bright and sometime...
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review 1: A very simple and quick read and is definitely a recommendation for aspiring writers of all ages.Not only does it gives advice,it also shows Walter Deans Myers own methods of how he writes and you get a glimpse of what's in his notebooks and how he plans out his fiction and non-f...
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review 1: I'm really baffled by this book. Normally, Myers wrote clear, believable characters in solid settings, but this one came across as a half-baked dystopian novel that slipped out unedited.The setting, twenty years into an unpleasant future, assumes that current trends of "the rich ...