Walter Dean Myers
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Five devoted friends become landlords and try to make their Harlem neighborhood a better place to live. If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldn't beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, who'd died for the third time in a month--and not a rent payer in the bunch. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got...
3) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.