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    145th Street: Short Stories
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    145th Street: Short Stories

    By Walter Dean Myers

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    About this ebook

    An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults
     
    New Bonus Content:
    -Q&A with Walter Dean Myers
    -Teaser chapter from On a Clear Day
    -Excerpt from Hoops

    The first week of his senior year, everything changed. That’s when Mack met Kitty. She hadn’t finished the sonnet she wrote for him, but she had finished Mack. From that minute on, he was stupid in love.
     
    That’s just Kitty and Mack.
     
    But everybody on the block has a story to tell.

    A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories set on one block of 145th Street. We get to know the oldest resident; the cop on the beat; fine Peaches and her girl, Squeezie; Monkeyman; and Benny, a fighter on the way to a knockout. We meet Angela, who starts having prophetic dreams after her father is killed and Big Joe, who wants a bang-up funeral while he's still around to enjoy it. Some of these stories are private, and some are the ones behind the headlines. In each one, characters jump off the page and pull readers right into the mix on 1-4-5.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateNov 13, 2001
    ISBN9780385729840
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    145th Street: Short Stories
    Author

    Walter Dean Myers

    Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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    • 5/5
      This is a great, honest, and well-written story collection for young readers. My daughter was reading it with her 8th grade English class and I decided to get myself a copy. She and I exchanged a few of our favorite stories and were able to have some great discussions as well as share our perspectives - definitely worth checking out!
    • 4/5
      Teen book club read. Very interesting discussions. "The Streak" was a personal favorite. "Angela's Eyes" resulted in great visual art projects.
    • 1/5
      So this is my intro to Walter Dean Myers, who everyone recommends to middle schoolers. My son (7th grade) and I read the first two stories. Very urban setting, nothing we could relate to, and the stories were the type that just makes you wonder why we just read that. It's like a kid telling you the story of a shoot out in the neighborhood in great detail (without any better use of language than a kid on the street narrating over, say, a hot dog) and then he concludes describing how it culminated in a dead dog, a dead kid, and some scared cops, and you're like, "Well, that was refreshing." I guess Myers does at least try to show significance at the end of the stories that are a little deeper, but these really are issues that my white suburban kid isn't really interested in right now. Neither of us care to finish the collection.
    • 5/5
      "That's what 145th Street is like. Something funny happens... and then something bad happens. It's almost as if the block is reminding itself that life is hard, and you have to take it seriously." Walter Dean Myers's book of interconnected short stories is a sweet and sour mix of the comedy and tragedy of the human condition, played out against the backdrop of the Harlem neighborhood that is centered around 145th Street. In this 'hood, teens will become acquainted with the mysterious 12-year-old Angela, whose sad dreams seem to predict the future for an unlucky few, and the fast-talking Jamie Farrell, a smooth basketball player who's praying that his streak of good luck doesn't end before he can ask out Celia Evora, "the finest chick in the school." They will chuckle at the affable Big Joe, who wants to enjoy his funeral party while he's still alive, yet feel their hearts tighten when Big Time Henson senses his drug addiction drawing him closer and closer to an early grave.Myers frankly discusses the consequences of violence, drive-bys and gang war through his articulate characters, but tempers these episodes with such a love of his fictional community that every character shines through with the hope and strength of a survivor. Changing his point of view from teen to adult and back again through each vignette, Myers successfully builds a bridge of understanding between adolescents and adults that will help each group better understand the problems of the other. A worthy and recommended read that beautifully illustrates the good that can come out of a community that stands together.
    • 5/5
      4P"That's what life of 145th Street is like. Something funny happens, like Big Joe's funeral, and then something bad happens. It's almost as if the block is reminding itself that like is hard, and you have to take it seriously." (p. 12)
    • 5/5
      5Q 3P"That's what 145th Street is like. Something funny happens, like Big Joe's funeral, and then something bad happens. It's almost as if the block is reminding itself that life is hard, and you have to take it seriously."Big Joe's Funeral, p. 12
    • 5/5
      A salty, wrenchingly honest collection of stories set on one block of 145th Street. We get to know the oldest resident; the cop on the beat; fine Peaches and her girl, Squeezie; Monkeyman; and Benny, a fighter on the way to a knockout. We meet Angela, who starts having prophetic dreams after her father is killed; Kitty, whose love for Mack pulls him back from the brink; and Big Joe, who wants a bang-up funeral while he's still around to enjoy it. Some of these stories are private, and some are the ones behind the headlines. In each one, characters jump off the page and pull readers right into the mix on 1-4-5.