Displaying 1 of 1 2001 Format: Book Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014. Title: Bad boy : a memoir / by Walter Dean Myers. Publisher, Date: New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. Description: 214 pages ; 22 cm Summary: The author relates his experiences growing up in Harlem, the home of Sugar Ray Robinson and Langston Hughes, in the 1940s and 1950s. Subjects: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014 -- Childhood and youth. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. African American authors -- Biography. Children's stories -- Authorship. Notes: Accelerated Reader 6.5. Reading Counts! 6.6. Contents: Roots -- Harlem -- Let's Hear It for the First Grade! -- Arithmetic Summer -- Bad Boy -- Mr. Irwin Lasher -- I Am Not the Center of the Universe -- A Writer Observes -- Sonnets from the Portuguese -- Heady Days at Stuyvesant High -- The Garment Center -- God and Dylan Thomas -- Marks on Paper -- The Stranger -- Dr. Holiday -- Being Black -- 1954 -- Sweet Sixteen -- The Typist -- Books I've Typed. Web Site: Contributor biographical information Publisher description LCCN: 00052978 ISBN: 0060295236 9780060295233 0060295244 9780060295240 0064472884 Other Number: 45438156 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 650369 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: BIO Myers Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
