Like many of the protagonists in his dozens of young adult books, Walter Dean Myers was once a troubled, sensitive and intelligent young man living an aimless life. A writer’s heart beat in his ...

Walter Dean Meyers, Author, Walter Dean Myers, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14 (150p) ISBN 978-0-385-30687-4 T.J., his younger brother Moondance and their best friend Mop are ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Some of Myers's books are meant for older readers. Here are some titles that younger and older KidsPost readers might enjoy. Ages 8-11 * "I've Seen the Promised Land." A beautifully illustrated ...

Whenever Walter Dean Myers wrote a book — and he published ... said in a statement that Myers' books "do not shy away from the sometimes gritty truth of growing up. He wrote books for the ...

Walter Dean Myers, a celebrated author known for writing books about young African Americans, such as “Monster,” “Fallen Angels” and “Hoops,” has died. He was 76. “Walter’s many ...

As he often said, he wrote books he would have wanted to read as a kid. Myers died after a brief illness. He was 76. I will never forget an interview we did two years ago with Walter Dean Myers ...

Writer Walter Dean Myers died on Wednesday after a brief illness at age 76, leaving mourners in the adult world and young readers who saw themselves in his books. He expanded the face of ...

Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific children ... visiting schools and prisons and libraries around the country. Mr. Myers’s books were usually narrated by teenagers trying to ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific ... being an ambassador and make sure I was writing, too." Myers' books were usually narrated by teenagers trying to make right ...