About this title: Myers, the Coretta Scott King Award-wining author of such books as ME, MOP & THE MOONDANCE KID, NOW IS YOUR TIME! THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM, and SCORPIONS shares the story of his own childhood. Raised by a loving foster family in the Harlem section of New York City, Myers nonetheless had a difficult adolescence and is he blunt about his tendency to get into trouble during those years. Readers of Myers' fictional works will see how some real people in his life became the inspirations for some of his most famous characters.
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Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Cover has heavy wear. Corners of pages are rounded. Spine has creases. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Amistad
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780064472883ISBN:0064472884
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Amistad Pr
Date Published: 2002-05-01
ISBN-13:9780064472883ISBN:0064472884
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Description: Very Good. 0786275375 Tight book, nice text, some wear to covers and edges, a few pages in the middle have light crinkling at very bottom edge, NO DJ books may have some minor wearhouse damage. Stickers may be on spine or covers. read more
Edition: Audio Book edition
Binding: Audiobook (cassette)
Publisher: HarperChildrensAudio
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780694525355ISBN:0694525359
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Former public library copy with library stamps/stickers. In plastic hardshell case. Tapes good, storage case has a crack to edge, some edgewear. Narrated by: Joe Morton; includes ALL 4 tapes; 5 hours.; read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
Date Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN-13:9780060295233ISBN:0060295236
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Amistad
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060295233ISBN:0060295236
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"This autobiography reads like a novel, but a thoughtful one. Raised by friends of his mother, Walter struggles between two identities: the street wise, athletic "bad boy" with a speech defect who fights the kids making fun of him and absorbs street values, and the thoughtful reader of classics who yearns to write poetry and stories that will move others. His academic/creative identity moves him farther from his parents and friends even as he realizes that his skin and poverty color will keep him from the college education he wants and deserves. The story shows his struggle to decide who he will be and the progress that finally ends with his success as an author. Very positive and thoughtful."
"I really like Walter Dean Myers books. I respect him as an author so it was interesting to read about where he came from. He had a really rough time throughout his teenage and young adult years (didn't even graduate from HS!). This is a good read if you enjoy his books--Monster, Fallen Angels, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Slam! to name a few."
"this book had moments of 4 and i liked the writers style; it sounded very natural and flowed nicely. having said that, I was left feeling like nothing was resolved at the end. As i got closer to the end of the book and we were still at 16 years old...i do realize that it's about his teenage years but it just didn't sit "completed" with me. i will read more of his books though."
You need to read this book right now if you are any or all of the following:
1. A writer 2. A parent 3. A teenager 4. A former teenager 5. A teacher 6. Black
Myers' book "Monster" is required reading in a lot of secondary English classes, but I haven't heard of "Bad Boy" being on many lists. It should be. This is one of those very few and far between books that I want to re-read the minute I finish it. I wish I would've discovered it sooner. I can connect with "Bad Boy" on so many different levels and at every stage of my life thus far.
I could be wrong, but I don't recall having said this about a book since I picked up "Me Talk Pretty One Day" ... This book changed me."
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