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Title

The Glory Field / by Walter Dean Myers.

Author

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Publisher

New York, NY : Scholastic, 1994.

Paging

375 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field.

Web Link

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/myers.htm

Subject(s)

African Americans Fiction.

 

African Americans Fiction.

 

Discrimination Fiction.

 

Family Fiction.

 

Slavery Fiction.

 

South Carolina Fiction.

 

Domestic fiction.

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OLYMPIA CUSD #16

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11/18/96

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Record 2 of 17

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Title

The young landlords / Walter Dean Myers.

Author

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Publisher

New York : Viking Press, 1979.

Paging

197 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary

Five devoted friends become landlords and try to make their Harlem neighborhood a better place to live.

Subject(s)

Landlord and tenant Fiction.

 

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.

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OLYMPIA CUSD #16

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12/12/02

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Record 3 of 17

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Title

Slam! / Walter Dean Myers.

Author

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Publisher

New York : Scholastic Press, c1996.

Paging

266 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

Subject(s)

African Americans Juvenile literature.

 

Basketball Juvenile literature.

 

High schools Juvenile literature.

 

Prejudices Juvenile literature.

 

Schools Juvenile literature.

 

African Americans Fiction.

 

Basketball stories.

 

High schools Fiction.

 

Prejudices Fiction.

 

Schools Fiction.

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OLYMPIA CUSD #16

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04/26/06

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Title

Shadow of the red moon / Walter Dean Myers ; illustrations by Christopher Myers.

Author

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Publisher

New York : Scholastic, c1995.

Paging

183 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Summary

As the Fens attack his home in New City, fifteen-year-old Jon is sent into the Wilderness with other young Okalians to search for the Ancient City, but what he finds is something very different.

Other Authors

Myers, Christopher A.

Subject(s)

Fantasy.

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03/01/06

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Title

Somewhere in the darkness / Walter Dean Myers.

Author

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Publisher

New York : Scholastic, c1992.

Paging

168 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary

A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an, often painful, time of discovery for them both.

Subject(s)

Fathers and sons Fiction.

 

Interpersonal relations Fiction.

 

Prisoners Fiction.

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OLYMPIA CUSD #16

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04/07/05

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11/03/05

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Title

Tears of a tiger / Sharon M. Draper.

Author

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

Publisher

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1994.

Paging

162 p. ; 22 cm.

Summary

The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Subject(s)

African Americans Fiction.

 

Death Fiction.

 

High schools Fiction.

 

Schools Fiction.

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OLYMPIA CUSD #16

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04/07/06

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OLYMPIA MIDDLE SCHOOL

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05/18/06

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OLYMPIA MIDDLE SCHOOL

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05/16/06

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Title

Copper sun / Sharon Draper.

Author

Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)

Publisher

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006.

Paging

302 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

Web Link

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/2005005540-d.html

Subject(s)

Slavery Fiction.

 

Indentured servants Fiction.

 

African Americans History 18th century Fiction.

 

South Carolina History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction.

 

Florida History Spanish colony, 1565-1763 Fiction.

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OLYMPIA CUSD #16

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05/22/06

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Record 8 of 17

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