The Resource Bad boy : a memoir, Walter Dean Myers
Bad boy : a memoir, Walter Dean Myers
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Resource Information
The item Bad boy : a memoir, Walter Dean Myers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Noble County Public Library.
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- Summary
- Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 214 pages
- Note
- "Amistad."
- Isbn
- 9780060295240
- Label
- Bad boy : a memoir
- Title
- Bad boy
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Walter Dean Myers
- Subject
-
- trueBiographies -- Arts | Writing | Authors and illustrators
- trueAuthors, American -- Biography
- trueBiographies
- trueBiographies -- Identity | Africans and African Americans
- trueBiographies -- Identity | Children and teenagers
- trueChildren's literature writing
- Children's stories -- Authorship -- Juvenile literature
- trueHarlem, New York City
- trueLanguage arts -- Writers and poets
- Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014
- trueMyers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014 -- Childhood and youth
- Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
- trueAfrican American authors -- Biography
- African American authors -- Biography
- African American authors -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- trueAuthors, American
- Authors, American
- trueAuthors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer
- Summary
- The author relates his experiences growing up in Harlem, the home of Sugar Ray Robinson and Langston Hughes, in the 1940s and 1950s
- Award
-
- YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2008
- YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2002
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 183609
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Citation source
-
- School Library Journal
- Publisher's Weekly
- Booklist
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1937-2014
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.54
- B
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
-
- Young Adult
- 970
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- LC call number
- PS3563.Y48
- LC item number
- Z47 2001
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 970
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
-
- 7
- 12
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Authors, American
- African American authors
- Children's stories
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Authors, American
- African Americans
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Authors, American
- African American authors
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Bad boy : a memoir, Walter Dean Myers
- Note
- "Amistad."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19576845
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9780060295240
- Isbn Type
- (lib. bdg.)
- Lccn
- 00052978
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (IMchF)fol08020303
- Label
- Bad boy : a memoir, Walter Dean Myers
- Note
- "Amistad."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 19576845
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9780060295240
- Isbn Type
- (lib. bdg.)
- Lccn
- 00052978
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (IMchF)fol08020303
Subject
- trueBiographies -- Arts | Writing | Authors and illustrators
- trueAuthors, American -- Biography
- trueBiographies
- trueBiographies -- Identity | Africans and African Americans
- trueBiographies -- Identity | Children and teenagers
- trueChildren's literature writing
- Children's stories -- Authorship -- Juvenile literature
- trueHarlem, New York City
- trueLanguage arts -- Writers and poets
- Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014
- trueMyers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014 -- Childhood and youth
- Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014 -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature
- trueAfrican American authors -- Biography
- African American authors -- Biography
- African American authors -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- trueAuthors, American
- Authors, American
- trueAuthors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Juvenile literature
Genre
Included in
- trueYALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults: What Makes a Family? (2008)
- trueYALSA Best Books for Young Adults: 2002
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