Walter Dean Myers

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life....

In the late 1960s, Richie Perry is growing up fast on the battlefields of Vietnam. But in the war-torn jungle, every moment is a struggle to survive....

The story of 12-year-old Jamal, whose life changes drastically when he acquires a gun. Though he survives the experience, it's not without sacrificing his innocence....

Cameron: "Deep inside, you know that whoever gets up in your face gets there because he knows you're nothing, and he knows that you know it too....

As a 14-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. . At 19, he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At 20, he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the name Malcolm X....

For the very first time in his decades-long career writing for teens, acclaimed and beloved author Walter Dean Myers writes with a teen, Ross Workman....

Darius and Twig are an unlikely pair: Darius is a writer whose only escape is his alter ego, a peregrine falcon named Fury, and Twig is a middle-distance runner striving for athletic success....

At a young age, Lil J. Skin started stealing pain pills from his mom whenever he started to feel stressed - but now he's graduated to the big leagues....

Myers is at his clever best in this witty and action-packed, coming-of-age story of a teenager's summer during the Harlem Renaissance and his run-ins with famous gangsters, writers, and musicians....

Greg “Slam” Harris can play basketball, period. On the court, he’s almost unstoppable.....

Acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers presents a compelling novel that looks at America's occupation of Iraq through the eyes of those who live it first hand....

Lockdown is the powerful tale of 14-year-old Reese Anderson, who has spent 22 months in a tiny cell at a “progress center"....

After witnessing the annihilation of his people by El Muerte's legions, young Tarik undergoes the training that will enable him to destroy this fierce leader....

"Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human." This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa.

Your first love is totally wrong for you. Do you follow your heart? Or do you run away....

On Harlem’s 145th Street, things happen that don’t happen anywhere else in the world. From danger and despair to hilarity and joy, literary legend Walter Dean Myers captures every mood and every beat of life in this vibrant Harlem....

The story of one of America's most revered figures is brought to life by the text of award-winning author Walter Dean Myers....

Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie, his father. Lonnie's got his own thing going on, and he doesn't have much room in his life for a son he barely knows....

Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles deftly tell the true story of the unsung American heroes of the 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I. At a time of widespread bigotry and racism, the African American soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment put their lives on the line for democracy....

Abdullah Syed Hari is fourteen years old. He loves his family and his friends. And he is a Somali pirate....