Walter Dean Myers
1) Monster
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
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Few men in American history are as controversial as Malcolm X. In this provocative biography, Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, presents a forthright portrait of a complex man whose life reflected the major events of our times.
4) Slam!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.
6) Lockdown
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
7) Shooter
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
8) Dope sick
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
11) Fallen angels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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This New York Times MonsterAll Rise and starring Jennifer Hudson, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Nas, and A$AP Rocky.The late Walter Dean Myers was a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, who was known for his commitment to realistically depicting kids from his hometown of Harlem.
16) Invasion
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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In May of 1944 Josiah Wedgewood, a recruit for the US Army, sees in the "colored" regimen a black man he thinks he knows. Closer inspection shows the man to be his friend, Marcus Perry, and the two are glad to meet each other again in the fight against the Nazis. However, as the war heats up the future of these two young men is far from certain as they learn what it really means to fight.
17) Kick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
18) Game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
19) Scorpions
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Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.