Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)
Autor von Monster
Über den Autor
Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsberg, West Virginia. When he was three years old, his mother died and his father sent him to live with Herbert and Florence Dean in Harlem, New York. He began writing stories while in his teens. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in mehr anzeigen the Army at the age of 17. After completing his army service, he took a construction job and continued to write. He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness, at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Walter Dean Myers
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 (1999) 1,099 Exemplare
Monster Teen Impulse Story 4 Exemplare
The Cruisers 1 Exemplar
Ace Crime Detective 1 Exemplar
The glory field 1 Exemplar
the outsider 1 Exemplar
Paperback Plus Teacher's Resource Guided Reading Mop Moondance and the Nagasaki Knights (Invitations to Literacy,… (1996) 1 Exemplar
18 pine st. 1 Exemplar
Monster Student Packet Grades 9-12 (Activities to Teach Reading, Thinking, and Writing) (2019) 1 Exemplar
Monstrul 1 Exemplar
The magic forest 1 Exemplar
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Brother 1 Exemplar
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, The Journal of James Edmond Pease & The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, (My… (2000) 1 Exemplar
Me Mop and the Moondance Kid 1 Exemplar
The Golden Serpent 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales (2011) — Mitwirkender — 863 Exemplare
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Mitwirkender — 316 Exemplare
When I Was Your Age, Volume One: Original Stories About Growing Up (1996) — Mitwirkender — 227 Exemplare
No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices (1997) — Mitwirkender — 138 Exemplare
On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Mitwirkender — 98 Exemplare
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Mitwirkender — 76 Exemplare
From One Experience to Another: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction (1997) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
This Family Is Driving Me Crazy: Ten Stories About Surviving Your Family (2009) — Mitwirkender — 27 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Andere Namen
- Myers, Walter Milton (birth name)
Williams, Stacie
Johnson, Stacie - Geburtstag
- 1937-08-12
- Todestag
- 2014-07-01
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA
- Sterbeort
- New York, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- West Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Harlem, New York, USA - Berufe
- writer
- Beziehungen
- Myers, Christopher (son)
- Organisationen
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI|Board of Advisors)
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Margaret A. Edwards Award (1994)
Michael L. Printz Award (2000)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2009)
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award (2010)
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature (2012-2013)
Children's Literature Legacy Award (2019)
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Monster by Walter Dean Myer in EDE3343 Teaching Adol Lit MS Sp 2012 (Januar 2012)
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Dear America: My Name Is America: The Journal of… von Walter Dean Myers
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
'Monstro' conta a história de Steve Harmon, um adolescente indiciado por roubo seguido de homicídio. Walter Dean Myers alterna trechos do diário de Steve com episódios de seu julgamento, narrados em forma de roteiro. O livro mostra como uma única decisão pode mudar toda nossa vida
“Sergeant Brown looked betrayed. I felt like I had let him down. And now I had an even bigger problem. I wondered if he was going to call Judge Kelly and recommend that he send me back to juvie.”
This book is about a teenage boy named Kevin who got in trouble because he was the getaway driver in a robbery and he went to jail and was wondering if he could get on the right foot of trust with his teammates, coach, and everyone else. The conflict of the book is, at the beginning of the story Kevin commits a crime, but it isn’t his fault and then he goes to juvie after a while he gets out but people still judge him as a bad person so he struggles on the field.
The three main characters in this book are Sergeant Brown, Kevin, the main character, and Coach Hill. Sergeant Brown was the character who watched over Kevin when he was in trouble and out of jail and playing soccer. Kevin is the main character in this story. He got in trouble by association and went to jail and he played soccer. Coach Hill was the coach of Kevin's soccer team and he was very stern, especially towards Kevin after he got out of jail.
The theme of this story is don’t get in trouble even by association. While Kevin was not robbing he was the getaway driver for the robbery and that is what got him in trouble. And it developed a sense of mistrust between his coach and him for a while.
I recommend this novel because it is about sports and real life that can happen in real life.
Although it may seem confusing at first it all pieces up as the story goes on, so if you like crime sports, and real-life situations I would recommend this book for you.… (mehr)
This book is about a teenage boy named Kevin who got in trouble because he was the getaway driver in a robbery and he went to jail and was wondering if he could get on the right foot of trust with his teammates, coach, and everyone else. The conflict of the book is, at the beginning of the story Kevin commits a crime, but it isn’t his fault and then he goes to juvie after a while he gets out but people still judge him as a bad person so he struggles on the field.
The three main characters in this book are Sergeant Brown, Kevin, the main character, and Coach Hill. Sergeant Brown was the character who watched over Kevin when he was in trouble and out of jail and playing soccer. Kevin is the main character in this story. He got in trouble by association and went to jail and he played soccer. Coach Hill was the coach of Kevin's soccer team and he was very stern, especially towards Kevin after he got out of jail.
The theme of this story is don’t get in trouble even by association. While Kevin was not robbing he was the getaway driver for the robbery and that is what got him in trouble. And it developed a sense of mistrust between his coach and him for a while.
I recommend this novel because it is about sports and real life that can happen in real life.
Although it may seem confusing at first it all pieces up as the story goes on, so if you like crime sports, and real-life situations I would recommend this book for you.… (mehr)
Historical fiction about the draft riots of 1863, in a screenplay format.
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