Walter Dean Myers - Works

Works

  • Where Does a Day Go?, illustrated by Leo Carty (Parents Magazine Press, 1969)
  • The Dancers, illustrated by Anne Rockwell (Parents Magazine Press, 1972)
  • The Dragon Takes a Wife, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi (Bobbs-Merrill, 1972)
  • Fly, Jimmy, Fly!, illustrated by Moneta Barnett (Putnam, 1974)
  • Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff (Viking, 1975)
  • The World of Work : a Guide to Choosing a Career (Bobbs-Merrill, 1975)
  • Social Welfare (Franklin Watts, 1976)
  • Victory for Jamie (Scholastic, 1977)
  • Mojo and the Russians (Viking, 1977)
  • Brainstorm, illustrated with photographs by Chuck Freedman (Franklin Watts, 1977)
  • It Ain't All for Nothin' (V, 1978)
  • The Young Landlords (Viking, 1979) – A group of kids take over an apartment building and struggle to maintain it
  • The Golden Serpent, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen (Viking, 1980)
  • The Black Pearl and the Ghost; or, One Mystery after Another, illustrated by Robert Quackenbush (Viking, 1980) Mindless Behavior
  • The Legend of Tarik (Viking, 1981)
  • Hoops (Delacorte, 1981) – A promising basketball player tries not to end up like his former pro-playing coach
  • Won't Know Till I Get There (Viking, 1982) – A 14-year-old boy, his newly adopted brother, and his friends are forced to work in a retirement home
  • Tales of a Dead King (William Morrow and Company, 1983)
  • The Nicholas Factor (Viking, 1983)
  • Motown and Didi: A Love Story (Viking, 1984) – A young couple's romance, and their struggle living in Harlem
  • Mr. Monkey and the Gotcha Bird, illustrated by Leslie Morrill (Delacorte, 1984)
  • The Outside Shot (Delacorte, 1984) – A talented Harlem basketball player goes to college to play
  • Crystal (1987) – The life of a girl who becomes a model.
  • Fallen Angels (1988) – Young men in the army during the Vietnam war
  • Scorpions (1990) – a 12-year-old is asked to lead his brother's gang
  • The Mouse Rap (1990) – A 14-year-old is determined to find the loot from a 1930s bank heist.
  • Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom (1992)
  • The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner (1994) – a 12-year-old boy goes after a man that murdered his uncle.
  • Darnell Rock Reporting (1994) – A 13-year old boy joins the school newspaper.
  • ''The Glory Field'' (1994) – A family's account of their struggle in America from the 18th century to the 1990s.
  • Shadow of the Red Moon (1995)
  • Slam (1998) – A young black teen with an attitude problem deals with life on and off the basketball court.
  • Monster (1999) A 16-year-old black boy is charged with murder.
  • We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins – A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 (1999)
  • 145th Street: Short Stories (2001)
  • Greatest: Muhammad Ali (2001)
  • Bad Boy; A Memoir (2002) (a part of the Amistad Series) – Myers' life as a young boy growing up in 1940s Harlem
  • Handbook for Boys: A Novel (2003)
  • Somewhere in the Darkness (2003) – A young boy travels to Arkansas with a father he didn't grow up with
  • Thanks & Giving: All year long (2004)
  • Shooter (2004) – two friends of a school shooter give an account of him to the police
  • The Beast (2003) – A 17-year-old boy comes back to his home in Harlem from his boarding school to find that the girl he loves is using drugs.
  • Autobiography of My Dead Brother (1998) – A 14-year-old boy copes with life in Harlem by drawing
  • Street Love (2006) – A poetic novel of a romance in Harlem
  • What They Found: Love on 145th Street (2007)
  • Harlem Summer (2007)
  • Game (2008)
  • Sunrise Over Fallujah (2008) – A sequel to Fallen Angels, taking place in the Iraq War.
  • Dopesick (2009) – A teenager kills a policeman, and must contemplate his future
  • Riot (2009) A fictional account of the New York Draft Riots in 1863, during the Civil War, by the 15-year-old daughter of a black man and an Irish immigrant.
  • Amiri & Odette (2009) Myers takes classic Swan Lake ballet and recasts it into hip-hop verse.
  • Lockdown (2010)
  • Kick (2011) Written with Ross Workman
  • The Cruisers (2011)
  • The Cruisers Checkmate (2012)
  • The Cruisers Book 3 A Star is Born (2012)
  • We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, a World War II Soldier (2011)

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