Works by Walter Dean Myers (page 4)

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Released: Jan. 1, 2005

THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS: WHEN PRIDE MET COURAGE

by Walter Dean Myers, Bill Miles

"The whole reads like a second draft, with clunky transitions and a diffusion of focus that drag down what could have been an enormously inspiring tale. (Nonfiction. 9-12)"

A history of Harlem's all-black regiment and its exploits in France during the Great War is marred by uneven storytelling and inadequate documentation. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Nov. 1, 2004

HERE IN HARLEM: POEMS IN MANY VOICES

by Walter Dean Myers

"Sure to be a classic. (Poetry. 12+)"

In this Whitman-esque ode to time and the city, the "crazy quilt patterns" of Harlem are reflected in the voices of the neighborhood's "big-time people and its struggling folk," of little girls and blind old veterans, poets and mechanics, boxers and nannies, ballplayers and blues singers, laborers and jazz artists. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: Nov. 1, 2004

ANTARCTICA: JOURNEYS TO THE SOUTH POLE

by Walter Dean Myers

"A worthy introduction to a fascinating subject. (timeline, bibliography) (Nonfiction. 9-14)"

A solid history of Antarctic exploration takes readers from the times when it was known simply as Terra Australis Incognita to the present—and beyond. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: June 15, 2004

USS CONSTELLATION: PRIDE OF THE AMERICAN NAVY

by Walter Dean Myers

"Still, this readable, well-deserved tribute to a recently restored national treasure, currently docked in Baltimore, will reach a wider audience than the locally published profiles currently available. (Nonfiction. 10-12)"

The Constellation hasn't received the press accorded the Constitution, "Old Ironsides," but it was built at the same time (though broken up and rebuilt just prior to the Civil War), and also has a long, successful history in battle, as a hunter of slave ships, and as a training vessel. Read full book review >

CHILDREN'S

Released: May 1, 2004

SHOOTER

by Walter Dean Myers

"Though the volume is not as effective in its innovative format as Myers's Monster (1999), the subject matter, as current as today's headlines, will attract readers. (Fiction. YA)"

When a shooting occurs at Madison High with two students killed and six injured, investigators try to get to the heart of the tragedy in hopes of preventing further occurrences. Read full book review >

Cover art for I’VE SEEN THE PROMISED LAND

CHILDREN'S

Released: Jan. 1, 2004

I’VE SEEN THE PROMISED LAND: THE LIFE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Leonard Jenkins

"Doreen Rappaport's Martin's Big Words (2002). (Picture book/biography. 5-8)"

Following up their portrait of Malcolm X (2000), Myers briefly traces Dr. King's career, and Jenkins adds kaleidoscopic collages that both depict major incidents and figures of the Civil Rights movement, and capture the time's turmoil. Dr. King certainly doesn't lack for biographers, but Myers is unusually even-handed, highlighting King's nonviolent philosophy while viewing the Movement's angrier, more violent outbursts with a certain degree of—not sympathy, exactly, but understanding. Read full book review >

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