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The mouse rap The mouse rap Walter Dean Myers You can call me Mouse, 'cause that's my tag I'm into it all, everything's my bag my ace is Styx, he'll always do Add Bev and Sheri, and you got my crew...and a crew it is! For fourteen-year-old Mouse… OL11278694W
Adventure in Granada Adventure in Granada Walter Dean Myers While visiting Spain, Chris and Ken try to save a friend who has been falsely accused of stealing a valuable cross. OL14912996W
Ambush in the Amazon Ambush in the Amazon Walter Dean Myers While camping in the Amazon, Chris and his brother Ken try to save a tribal village from the attacks of what appears to be a reincarnated swamp monster. OL14912997W
Antarctica Antarctica Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers presents a thrilling record of Antarctica and the expedition parties that have uncovered the frozen continent throughout history. Walter Dean Myers brings the dramatic race to the S… OL14913000W
The black pearl and The ghost The black pearl and The ghost Walter Dean Myers Two stories: one featuring a great detective in search of a missing pearl, one with a famous ghost chaser tracking down a mischievous ghost. OL14913002W
Brainstorm Brainstorm Walter Dean Myers FORTIA, the army of the world in the year 2076, investigates a powerful, sinister ray that beams to earth from the planet Suffes causing people to lose their minds. OL14913006W
The Cruisers The Cruisers Walter Dean Myers Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy, learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruis… OL14913009W
The dancers The dancers Walter Dean Myers When a young boy accompanies his father, a prop man, to the theater, he gets an introduction to ballet. OL14913010W
Duel in the desert Duel in the desert Walter Dean Myers While camping in Morocco, Chris and his brother try to discover who stole a valuable silver chalice from a Moroccan palace. OL14913011W
The hidden shrine The hidden shrine Walter Dean Myers Chris and Ken Arrow, who often accompany their anthropologist mother on her travels, find themselves pursuing a band of thieves through the back alleys and waterways of Hong Kong. OL14913028W
Lockdown Lockdown Walter Dean Myers When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to thinking about it, you knew nobody could get in, either.It seems as if… OL14913033W
Young Martin's Promise Young Martin's Promise Walter Dean Myers,Alex Haley Young Martin’s Promise is the story of a young Martin Luther King, Jr., and his slow awakening to the existence of segregation. As a child, Martin experiences discrimination that would motivate his e… OL14913071W
The Cruisers The Cruisers Walter Dean Myers Zander's play, Act Six, brings Da Vinci Academy into the spotlight, especially when LaShonda's costume designs win her an opportunity she can accept only if she is willing to leave her autistic broth… OL16175909W
Checkmate Checkmate Walter Dean Myers Four middle-schoolers who publish an alternative newspaper at their Harlem academy for gifted students investigate why a classmate--one of the best chess players in New York City--was caught trying t… OL16296329W
145th Street 145th Street Walter Dean Myers Ten stories portray life on a block in Harlem. OL16628420W
Hoops Hoops Walter Dean Myers A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from re… OL16690054W
The dream bearer The dream bearer Walter Dean Myers During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior. OL17732530W
Places I Never Meant to Be Places I Never Meant to Be Walter Dean Myers,Judy Blume,Norma Fox Mazer,Katherine Paterson,Jacqueline Woodson,Rachel Vail,Julius Lester,Harry Mazer A collection of short stories accompanied by short essays on censorship by twelve authors whose works have been challenged in the past. OL1838393W
The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins Walter Dean Myers A fictionalized account of the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France, told through the journal entries of a seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia. OL24274823W
The dream bearer The dream bearer Walter Dean Myers David Curry doesn't know what to make of his father, Reuben, whose violent out bursts and chilling nightmares torment his family. His older brother, Tyrone, says Reuben is crazy. But lately, even Tyr… OL98222W
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