From the award-winning author of Monster, this collection of
powerful and poignant stories about 145th Street-an unforgettable
block in the heart of Harlem-celebrates African-American life in
all of its glory.
"Myers is a master." -The New York Times Book Review
Walter Dean Myers was a poet, a novelist, a playwright, a musician, and an avid collector of memorabilia. He was awarded the American Library Association's 2019 Children's Literature Legacy Award, the inaugural Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, the inaugural Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Margaret A. Edwards Award, and the ALAN Award. His books for young adults have received numerous accolades, including two Newbery Honor Awards, eleven Coretta Scott King Author Awards and Honor Awards, and many more. 145th Street- Short Stories was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults and received starred reviews from the Horn Book and Publishers Weekly.
"Myers has a great natural style . . . and is completely at home in
a Harlem depicted without adulation but with great affection." —The
Horn Book Magazine, Starred
"Readers will find that they could settle in for hours and take it
all in." —Publishers Weekly, Starred
"Fast, wry, and honest . . . the search for personal identity is at
the heart of this lyrical collection, and so is the sense of the
place." —Booklist, Boxed
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