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(AP) — Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling and prolific children's author and tireless champion of literacy and education, has died. He was 76... NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Dean Myers, a best ...

National Book Festival Walter Dean Myers was interviewed at the National Book Festival. He discussed writing children’s books and the role of Africa… September 2, 2004 ...

The Henrico County School Board voted Thursday to keep a book by a prominent Black author in circulation after evaluating a parent's complaint that it was "inappropriate" for all grade levels.

The winners and honorees of the eighth annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children’s Literature have been announced. The honors are selected by the We Need Diverse Books Walter ...

Author Walter Dean Myers (August 12, 1937-July 1, 2014), regarded as one of the most influential writers of juvenile fiction, was born Walter Milton Myers in Martinsburg. After his mother’s ...

Walter Dean Myers, 76, is recognized for his young adult novels that look at the problems, challenges and pressures facing today’s teenagers in general, but especially young blacks.

ripl-teen-book-reviews:> (Age 5 and up) Crusading journalist Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in 1862, and by the time she was a teenager, her parents had died of yellow fever. To support her ...

SEATTLE – Walter Dean Myers is the winner of the 2019 Children’s Literature Legacy Award honoring an author or illustrator, published in the United States, whose books have made a substantial and ...

The literary non-profit We Need Diverse Books has announced the winners and honorees of the fourth annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children's Literature, and if you haven't read ...

The inaugural The Walter (Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature) ceremony was held yesterday at the Library of Congress by the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books. The winners ...

On July 1, the world lost Walter Dean Myers, a powerful author for young people, at age 76. Walter Milton Myers (given name) was born on Aug. 12, 1937, in Martinsburg, W.Va., and was adopted at ...