Walter Dean Myers
41) Looking like me
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.
43) The outside shot
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Recruited by a small midwestern college to play basketball, a Harlem boy has many new experiences, including working with a child who needs physical therapy and dealing with corruption in college sports.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
45) The dream bearer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins/Amistad
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior.
46) The Glory Field
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996], c1994
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's two-hundred-forty-one-year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.
47) Invasion
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry were friends in Virginia, but now that they are both involved in the Normandy invasion, the differences in their positions is uncomfortable, for Josiah is a white infantryman and Marcus is a black transport driver, the only role the segregated army will allow him.
52) The Beast
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs give sixteen-year-old Anthony Witherspoon a new perspective both on his home and on his life at a Connecticut prep school.
54) On a clear day
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 2035, Dahlia Grillo, a sixteen-year-old math whiz, joins with six other American teens traveling to England to meet with groups from around the world in hopes of stopping C8, the companies that control nearly everything for their own benefit.
55) Juba!: a novel
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba; includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015, ©1999.
Language
English
Description
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.