TY  - BOOK
AU  - Myers,Walter Dean
TI  - Bad Boy: a memoir
SN  - 0-06-447288-4
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Haprper Collins Publishers
KW  - Myers, Walter Dean
KW  - childhood and youth
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - biography
KW  - Afro-American authors
KW  - Children's stories
KW  - authorship
KW  - African American history
N1  - paperback
N2  - 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
ER  -