Handbook for Boys: A Novel - Softcover

Walter Dean Myers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064409309 ISBN 13: 9780064409308

Publisher: HarperCollins Childrens Book Group, 2003

Synopsis

Jimmy and Kevin could really use a guide to life.

Their activities almost land them in juvenile detention until Duke employs them in his Harlem barbershop. Duke has rules for everything. But is he offering good advice or just more aggravation?

In the groundbreaking tradition of the award-winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a complex, layered novel about the rules for success. Handbook for Boys is the book that he wishes he could have read while growing up. It is also the book young people need to read today.

Ages 10+

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Synopsis:

Jimmy and Kevin could really use a guide for life. Their activities almost land them in juvenile detention until Duke employs them in his Harlem barbershop. Duke has rule for everything. But is he offering good advice or just more aggravation? Ages 9+.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Childrens Book Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0064409309
• ISBN 13: 9780064409308
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224