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Walter Dean Myers

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1) Looking for the easy life

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Publisher

HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

2011

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Five monkeys go in search of the easy life, but find that "easy ain't always good" and "a little work ain't always bad."

2) Harlem: a poem

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Pub. Date

c1997

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.

3) Sunrise over Fallujah

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Pub. Date

2008.

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Description

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Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.

4) Monster

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date

c1999

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Description

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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

5) Frederick Douglass: the lion who wrote history

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

[2017]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Presents the life and accomplishments of Frederick Douglass, a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become a leader in the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer.