Bad Boy :

Myers, Walter Dean

Bad Boy : a memoir. - New York : Haprper Collins Publishers, 2001.

paperback

The memoir of the author Walter Dean Myers. Mr. Myers tells the story of growing up in a poor family in Harlem where his hope for a successful future diminishes as he comes to ealize that class and racism surround him. He began to doubt himself and the values that he had always relied on and turns to the street and to books for comfort. Both gripping and funny this story shows us life in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Myers, Walter Dean--childhood and youth
Authors, American--20th century--biography
Afro-American authors--biography
Children's stories--authorship
African American history