| Street Love Contributor(s): Myers, Walter Dean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0064407322 ISBN-13: 9780064407328 Publisher: Amistad Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: A "New York Times" bestselling author delivers an evocative, edgy tale of star-crossed urban love, set to a Shakespearean Harlem beat. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - African American - Young Adult Fiction | Romance - Contemporary - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Class Differences |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.06" W x 7.16" (0.22 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 111559 Reading Level: 5.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 2.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This groundbreaking novel in verse from Walter Dean Myers--two-time Newbery Honor winner and five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner--is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story set in Harlem. Share this one with readers taken with books by Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, and Elizabeth Acevedo. Whether read at home or in the classroom, and alongside the original inspiration or on its own. Street Love is sure to spark opinions and conversations. This verse novel, in which entire poems dazzle readers with rhyme and rhythm and voice, finds Damien, a straight-A student, headed for Brown University. But he falls in love with Junice, a girl whose mother has just been incarcerated for selling drugs, and his direction could change. Readers enjoy multiple perspectives on this romance and the decision Damien makes. (Kirkus starred review) Hip-hop fans, readers of poetry, and hopeless romantics will respond to the emotional vibrancy of this powerful work. (VOYA) Your first love is totally wrong for you. Walter Dean Myers was a New York Times bestselling author, Printz Award winner, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, two-time Newbery Honor recipient, and the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Maria Russo, writing in the New York Times, called Myers one of the greats and a champion of diversity in children's books well before the cause got mainstream attention. |
Contributor Bio(s): Myers, Walter Dean: - 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. |