I love Walter Dean Myers so I figured I would probably enjoy this book. He has a realistic view of what it's like for a young person struggling to see the point in trying to rise above street life. As someone who works in a high school with teens like Lil J, I have heard the same excuses from my ...
This book just didn't draw me in - I stopped half-way through because I really didn't find it that interesting.This book is intended for a much younger audience than most of Myers's books, which means that a lot of students expecting something more YA will be disappointed. Several characters see...
I really did not enjoy this book very much. I wouldn't say it was terrible but I wouldn't say it was good either. I found that I had to force myself to read it just to get through the book. I didn't feel like I could relate to any of the characters but that could be because I'm white and the book...
Looking Like Me, by Walter Dean Myers, was a very different kind of book that I have read. I did not know what to think of about it when I first started reading it. I didn’t quite understand where the book was going until I realized it was a poetry book. I thought that towards the middle of the b...
The book that im reading is called monster and the author is Walter dean Myers it's a realistic fiction. The book includes real events that happen in everyday life or in the ghetto. It has a lesson that its goes like you get in trouble cause your in a wrong place at wrong time or you hang with th...
Walter Dean Myers wrote the book Fallen Angels. It is about America and the Vietnam War. Well as said by the main character in the book, Richie Perry. He goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon. The book has 4...
In the memoir Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers, Walter recalls the most important events of his life year by year. His story is about living with racism and being called a “bad boy” when really he was not. The main idea or message from Bad Boy is no matter what your surroundings and society may be yo...
A quick read and appropriate for a young reader. The book cover doesn't draw attention to pick up this book, but I did like how the story unfolded in introducing a troubled child to find his voice and see that his words and action can make a difference. This book was culled from our school libr...