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Bad boy : a memoir
Title:
Bad boy : a memoir
Author:
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.
Edition:
First HarperTempest edition.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : HarperTempest, 2002.

©2001
Physical Description:
214 pages ; 18 cm
Summary:
The author relates his experiences growing up in Harlem, the home of Sugar Ray Robinson and Langston Hughes, in the 1940s and 1950s.
General Note:
"Amistad".

Originally published in 2001.
Language:
English
Contents:
Roots -- Harlem -- Let's hear it for the first grade -- Arithmetic summer -- Bad boy -- Mr. Irwin Lasher -- I am not the center of the universe -- Writer observes -- Sonnets from the Portuguese -- Heady days at Stuyvesant High -- Garment center -- God and Dylan Thomas -- Marks on paper -- Stranger -- Dr. Holiday -- Being black -- 1954 -- Sweet sixteen -- Typist -- Books I've typed.
Reading Level:
970 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 6.5 8.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.5 8.0 49772.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 6.6 12 Quiz: 25181 Guided reading level: Y.
ISBN:
9780064472883

9780756910495
Format :
Book