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Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)

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Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsberg, West Virginia. When he was three years old, his mother died and his father sent him to live with Herbert and Florence Dean in Harlem, New York. He began writing stories while in his teens. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in vis mere the Army at the age of 17. After completing his army service, he took a construction job and continued to write. He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness, at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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Værker af Walter Dean Myers

Monster (1999) 5,090 eksemplarer
Fallen Angels (1988) 1,887 eksemplarer
Sunrise Over Fallujah (2008) 1,351 eksemplarer
Slam! (1996) 1,258 eksemplarer
Bad Boy: A Memoir (2001) 1,173 eksemplarer
Somewhere In The Darkness (1992) 1,093 eksemplarer
Scorpions (1988) 1,044 eksemplarer
The Glory Field (1994) 804 eksemplarer
Hoops (2008) 758 eksemplarer
Harlem (1997) 699 eksemplarer
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (1993) 683 eksemplarer
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (2001) 577 eksemplarer
Shooter (2004) 480 eksemplarer
Lockdown (2010) 425 eksemplarer
The Cruisers (2010) 404 eksemplarer
145th Street: Short Stories (2000) 399 eksemplarer
Autobiography of My Dead Brother (2005) 379 eksemplarer
Game (2008) 371 eksemplarer
Dope Sick (2009) 358 eksemplarer
Riot (2009) 357 eksemplarer
Street Love (2006) 336 eksemplarer
Monster: A Graphic Novel (2015) 334 eksemplarer
Handbook for Boys: A Novel (2002) 324 eksemplarer
Jazz (2006) 321 eksemplarer
Looking Like Me (2009) 299 eksemplarer
The Beast (2003) 269 eksemplarer
Darius & Twig (2013) 259 eksemplarer
Harlem Summer (2007) 254 eksemplarer
Kick (2011) 247 eksemplarer
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff (1975) 241 eksemplarer
Darnell Rock Reporting (1994) 230 eksemplarer
Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid (1988) 225 eksemplarer
All the Right Stuff (2012) 207 eksemplarer
Invasion (2013) 185 eksemplarer
The Weather Baby (2000) 182 eksemplarer
Blues Journey (2003) 179 eksemplarer
The Outside Shot (1984) 178 eksemplarer
The Mouse Rap (1990) 177 eksemplarer
The Young Landlords (1979) 177 eksemplarer
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices (2004) 173 eksemplarer
Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly (2000) 171 eksemplarer
Won't Know Till I Get There (1875) 170 eksemplarer
Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told (2008) 164 eksemplarer
The Dream Bearer (2003) 159 eksemplarer
Juba!: A Novel (2015) 156 eksemplarer
Shadow of the Red Moon (1995) 142 eksemplarer
On a Clear Day (2014) 132 eksemplarer
The Legend of Tarik (1981) 131 eksemplarer
The Story of the Three Kingdoms (1995) 128 eksemplarer
Crystal (1987) 123 eksemplarer
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom (1997) 120 eksemplarer
Love Story (Amiri And Odette) (2009) 115 eksemplarer
The Cruisers Book 2: Checkmate (2011) 112 eksemplarer
It Ain't All for Nothin' (1979) 108 eksemplarer
Just Write: Here's How! (2012) 105 eksemplarer
The Blues of Flats Brown (2000) 72 eksemplarer
Motown and Didi (1862) 65 eksemplarer
Carmen (2011) 65 eksemplarer
Smiffy Blue: Ace Crime Detective (1996) 60 eksemplarer
Tales of a Dead King (1983) 58 eksemplarer
The dragon takes a wife (1995) 56 eksemplarer
Victory for Jamie (1977) 45 eksemplarer
Cruisers Book 4: Oh, Snap! (2013) 39 eksemplarer
The Golden Serpent (1980) 36 eksemplarer
Three Swords for Granada (2002) 31 eksemplarer
Looking for the Easy Life (2011) 25 eksemplarer
How Mr. Monkey Saw the Whole World (1996) 22 eksemplarer
SORT OF SISTERS (18 Pine St) (1992) 11 eksemplarer
Fighter (2003) 11 eksemplarer
Where does the day go? (1969) 11 eksemplarer
The Test (1992) 9 eksemplarer
The get over a short story (2013) 7 eksemplarer
Sweet illusions (1987) 6 eksemplarer
Fashion by Tasha (18 Pine Street) (1993) 6 eksemplarer
Brainstorm (1977) 5 eksemplarer
Fly, Jimmy, fly! (1974) 5 eksemplarer
The dancers (1972) 5 eksemplarer
Mojo and the Russians (1977) 5 eksemplarer
The Party (18 Pine St. #2) (1992) 4 eksemplarer
Kwame's Girl (18 Pine Street) (1994) 4 eksemplarer
TAKING SIDES (18 Pine St) (1994) 3 eksemplarer
Harlem blues (1996) 3 eksemplarer
The Nicholas Factor (1983) 3 eksemplarer
Pirate a short story (2011) 2 eksemplarer
The Prince (18 Pine Street) (1992) 2 eksemplarer
Sky Man (18 Pine Street) (1994) 2 eksemplarer
INTENSIVE CARE (18 Pine St) (1993) 2 eksemplarer
The House With 9 Rooms (2011) 2 eksemplarer
Peto (2000) 2 eksemplarer
Tags (HarperTeen Impulse) (2013) 2 eksemplarer
The magic forest 1 eksemplar
Sg Fallen Angels W/Conn (2001) 1 eksemplar
Monster - Activity Pack (2005) 1 eksemplar
The Cruisers 1 eksemplar
Ace Crime Detective 1 eksemplar
The glory field 1 eksemplar
the outsider 1 eksemplar
18 pine st. 1 eksemplar
Monstrul 1 eksemplar
Potwor (2021) 1 eksemplar
The Golden Serpent 1 eksemplar
The Diary (18 Pine Street) (1994) 1 eksemplar

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The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope (2001) — Bidragyder — 89 eksemplarer
Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are (2003) — Bidragyder — 81 eksemplarer
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Best African American Fiction (2009) (2009) — Bidragyder — 47 eksemplarer
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Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art (2003) — Bidragyder — 43 eksemplarer
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Twelve Shots (1997) — Bidragyder — 39 eksemplarer
Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns (2015) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer
Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
Don't Give Up the Ghost: A Book of Ghost Stories (1993) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
Funny You Should Ask (1992) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer

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Very quick read, which was great, but it was also very interesting. The way the author set up the book was unique and although the story ended with questions left unanswered, I feel that is what makes the book special. How reliable is the narrator? What really happened? “What did she see?”... great story...probably good for late middle school early high school readers because of some of the rape mentioning a in the prison, just FYI.
 
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jbrownleo | 349 andre anmeldelser | Mar 27, 2024 |
Representation: Black characters
Trigger warnings: Murder, imprisonment, physical assault and injury, blood depiction, drug use mentioned
Score: Six points out of ten.
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I saw Monster displayed on the shelves of a library I went to so after I read another book, I immediately seized the opportunity to get it by picking it up. Afterwards, I read Monster, but when I finished it, I thought it had flaws that forced me to lower its rating. Maybe the original text will be a better reading experience for me.

It starts with the first person I see, Steve Harmon, who is arrested and awaiting trial for a murder accusation. He finds an opportunity to live through that journey like it is a movie, and thus the court case begins. There are some flashbacks to explain what happened before the police arrested Steve like the other characters who committed a robbery and, most prominently, the murder of a person. Despite Monster being under 200 pages, it still felt slow paced, allowing me to see the flaws, of which there are many. Why is the art black and white? I can understand that to be intentional, but I would've liked it if the art was full colour. The characters were hard to connect or relate with and the font was hard to read, dampening my reading experience. The conclusion petered out as the legal drama comes to an end.
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Law_Books600 | 24 andre anmeldelser | Feb 26, 2024 |
I enjoyed this book. I liked the journal entries better than the film script parts though. Maybe that was because I read it too fast; I don't know. But I can say I have never read a novel like this before.
 
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Dances_with_Words | 349 andre anmeldelser | Jan 6, 2024 |
I read the original version first (the non graphic novel). I like the idea of this as a graphic novel, but after reading this I think the original book was a better format. The story is impactful in both formats, but I think it works better in the original.
 
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