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So They Say You Should Write a Book: A New Author’s Guide to Writing a Book People Will Buy and Read
So They Say You Should Write a Book: A New Author’s Guide to Writing a Book People Will Buy and Read Jevon Bolden 9781733873055 Nonfiction Embolden Media Group Embolden Media Group Someone heard your ...
This Year You Write Your Novel
This Year You Write Your Novel Walter Mosley 9780316065498 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group No more excuses. “Let the lawn get shaggy and the paint peel from the walls,” bestsel...
Bad Boy: A Graphic Memoir
Bad Boy: A Graphic Memoir Walter Dean Myers 9780063099920 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins A gripping graphic memoir adaptation of legendary, multi-award-winning author Walter Dean Myers’s au...
Pray Hear Write: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for Breakthrough in Your Writing
Pray Hear Write: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for Breakthrough in Your Writing Jevon Bolden 9781733873062 Nonfiction Embolden Media Group Embolden Media Group Ignite your passion to write! You know ...
Elements of Fiction
Elements of Fiction Walter Mosley 9780802147639 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers wit...
Write Your Book in 4 Weeks: No More Fear
Write Your Book in 4 Weeks: No More Fear Tressa “Azarel” Smallwood and Tiphani Montgomery B011A6DNAG Nonfiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Award Winning Publisher Tressa “Az...
Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory’
Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory’ Walter Greason and Danian Darrell Jerry 9781942774907 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications Il...
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret A. J. Baime 9780358447757 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A riveting biography of Walter F. White, ...
The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir
The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir Walter Mosley 9781574781366 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press “A memoir about the beginnings of my journey on the page. My half-ba...
The Secret World of Walter Anderson
The Secret World of Walter Anderson Hester Bass 9780763671167 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Enter the fascinating world of reclusive nature-lover Walter Anderson—perhaps the most famous...
Transgressions
Transgressions Ed McBain, Walter Mosley and Donald E. Westlake 9780765347527 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers New York Times bestsellers Ed McBain, Walter Mosley, and Donald Westlake each provided a...
Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Chester B. Himes: A Biography Lawrence P. Jackson 9780393063899 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Chester B. Himes has been called "one of the towering figures of the blac...
The Black Sleuth (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
The Black Sleuth (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) John Edward Bruce 9781555535117 Fiction Northeastern Northeastern Originally serialized in McGirt’s Magazine between 1907 and 1909, The Blac...
The Book of Numbers (The Virginia Bookshelf)
The Book of Numbers (The Virginia Bookshelf) Robert Deane Pharr 9780813920467 Fiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press In the hardboiled tradition of Chester Himes and Walter ...
Monster (Graphic Novel)
Monster (Graphic Novel) Walter Dean Myers 9780062275004 Fiction HarperAlley HarperCollins A stunning graphic novel adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’s New York Times bestseller Monster. Monster is a ...
Chalk Outline Confessions
Chalk Outline Confessions David L. 9780978927615 Fiction Total Package Publications Total Package Publications Enter The Mind Of A Woman ScornedFrancine Styles receives a visit from two detectives one...
You Should Really Write A Book: How To Write, Sell, And Market Your Memoir
You Should Really Write A Book: How To Write, Sell, And Market Your Memoir Regina Brooks and Brenda Lane Richardson 9780312609344 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Even if you don’t...
Bombingham
Bombingham Anthony Grooms 9780345452931 Fiction One World Penguin Random House In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in ...
Too Beautiful to Die (Blades Overstreet Mystery)
Too Beautiful to Die (Blades Overstreet Mystery) Glenville Lovell 9780399150487 Fiction Putnam Adult Penguin Random House A debut mystery by a highly regarded author of literary novels, a gritty Afric...
Parishioner: A Novel
Parishioner: A Novel Walter Mosley 9780802168092 Fiction Atlantic Crime Grove Atlantic, Inc. Xavier Rule Mysteries, Book 1 “Walter Mosley is on my Mount Rushmore of crime fiction.”—S.A....
Blonde Faith: An Easy Rawlins Novel
Blonde Faith: An Easy Rawlins Novel Walter Mosley 9780446617901 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Easy Rawlins comes home from work, and finds more trouble on his doorstep in a day ...
Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel
Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel Walter Mosley 9781596912267 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing This bold new novel from Walter Mosley startles in both its rawness and its honest p...
Black Betty
Black Betty Walter Mosley 9780743451789 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books The New York Times Book Review ended its rave for White Butterfly, the most recent novel in Walter Mosley’s acclaimed mystery ...
The Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass
The Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass Wesley Brown 9780915924462 Nonfiction Teachers and Writers Collaborative Teachers and Writers Collaborative Some essays are personal accounts of te...
Ghalen: A Romance in Black
Ghalen: A Romance in Black Walter Mosley 9780063451551 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A stellar addition to the Amistad list: a beautiful coming-of-age novel from MWA Grand Master and PEN and Edgar Awa...
Flight
Flight Walter White 9798682632916 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African...
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Sunrise Over Fallujah Walter Dean Myers 9780439916240 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A powerful new novel about the heroics and horror of war from Walter Dean Myers, whose bestselling book F...
Touched
Touched Walter Mosley 9780802161840 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and nearly completely evil co...
Game
Game Walter Dean Myers 9780060582968 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins This thrilling basketball story from New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers is a strong choice for independent readin...
The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop
The Write Thing: Kwame Alexander Engages Students in Writing Workshop Kwame Alexander 9781493888429 Nonfiction Shell Educational Publishing Shell Educational Publishing Imagine having a Newbery Medal-...
Write Black, Write British
Write Black, Write British Kadija Sesay 9781870518062 Fiction Hansib Publications Limited Hansib Publications Limited AN EXAMINATION OF BLACK BRITISH WRITING FROM A BLACK BRITISH PERSPECTIVE Write Bla...
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Walter Rodney 9781788731188 Nonfiction Verso Books Verso Books The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis ...
The Groundings With My Brothers
The Groundings With My Brothers Walter Rodney 9781788731157 Nonfiction Verso Books Verso Books “I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have g...
Black Pulp
Black Pulp Walter Mosley, Christopher Chambers, Michael A. Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ron Fortier, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary Phillips, Mel Odom, Tommy Hancock, D. Alan Lewis, Derrick Ferguson, and Kim...
Known To Evil (Leonid Mcgill, Book 2)
Known To Evil (Leonid Mcgill, Book 2) Walter Mosley 9781594487521 Fiction Riverhead Hardcover Penguin Random House The Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the new New Yor...
Jazz
Jazz Walter Dean Myers 9780823421732 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House This smash-hit picture book of jazz music poems, from award-winning father-don team Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers, is...
Maximum Fantastic Four
Maximum Fantastic Four Stan Lee and Walter Mosley 9780785117926 Fiction Marvel Comics Marvel Comics Ushering in momentous change in comic-book illustration and ingenuity, Jack Kirby’s immense artistic...
The Groundings With My Brothers (2001)
The Groundings With My Brothers (2001) Walter Rodney 9780948390029 Fiction Frontline Distribution International Frontline Distribution International In The Groundings With My Brothers, Walter Rodney c...
In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977)
In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977) Sondra Kathryn Wilson 9780195116335 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University P...
Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making Of An African Intellectual
Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making Of An African Intellectual Walter Rodney 9780865430723 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The following is excepted from a ...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market Walter Johnson 9780674005396 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum Am...
The Memories We Keep
The Memories We Keep Walter Zacharius 9780758217714 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. An unexpected letter arrives in the mail, tying the present to the past, and promising a long-awaited...
Fortunate Son: A Novel
Fortunate Son: A Novel Walter Mosley 9780316114714 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley’s novel about two boys, one ensconced in a life...
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel Walter Mosley 9780316573269 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group In the latest from “mystery master” Walter Mosley, a family member&...
Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel
Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel Walter Mosley 9780316460217 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning “master of craft and narrative...
John Woman
John Woman Walter Mosley 9780802128416 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an ...
Darius & Twig
Darius & Twig Walter Dean Myers 9780061728259 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins New York Times bestselling author and Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers once again connects with teenagers everywhere in...
Darius & Twig
Darius & Twig Walter Dean Myers 9780061728235 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins New York Times bestselling author and Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers once again connects with teenagers everywhere in...
Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History Walter Mosley 9780472031986 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press A passionate examination of the socia...
Fear Itself: A Fearless Jones Novel
Fear Itself: A Fearless Jones Novel Walter Mosley 9780316591126 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Paris Minton doesn’t want any trouble. He minds his used bookstore and his own bus...
The Fire in the Flint
The Fire in the Flint Walter White 9798683457969 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published The Fire in the Flint is a landmark novel by Walter White. The story of Kenneth Harper, a young...
Odyssey
Odyssey Walter Mosley B00DK8AQ8U Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In this gripping and provocative eBook original novel celebrated bestselling author Walter Mosley explores the mind of an African...
Invasion
Invasion Walter Dean Myers 9780545384285 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Walter Dean Myers brilliantly renders the realities of World War II.Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way...
Parishioner
Parishioner Walter Mosley B009MYCOYK Fiction Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Penguin Random House An eBook original crime novel from bestselling author Walter Mosley, Parishioner is a portrait of a hardene...
Bad Boy Brawly Brown (Easy Rawlins Mystery)
Bad Boy Brawly Brown (Easy Rawlins Mystery) Walter Mosley 9780446198226 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from cri...
The Wave
The Wave Walter Mosley 9780446533638 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group Errol is awakened again by a strange prank caller asking for him by name and claiming to be his fatherwho has been dead for se...
Cinnamon Kiss: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Cinnamon Kiss: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley 9780786278558 Fiction Thorndike Press Thorndike Press A New York Times Bestselling Author This sizzling novel by master of crime fiction Walter ...
Monster
Monster Walter Dean Myers 9780064407311 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins This New York Times bestselling novel and National Book Award nominee from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of S...
Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley 9780316073035 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group For the huge audience that has always thought they should read Walter Mosley...
Devil In a Blue Dress (1st in the Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Devil In a Blue Dress (1st in the Easy Rawlins Mysteries) Walter Mosley 9780743451796 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Devil in a Blue Dress, a defining novel in Walter Mosley’s ...
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community
Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community Georgia A. Popoff and Quraysh Ali Lansana 9780915924288 Poetry Teachers and Writers Collaborative Teache...
Passing By Samaria
Passing By Samaria Sharon Ewell Foster 9780739408056 Fiction Multnomah Penguin Random House An inspirational read of racism, romance and religious conviction When the discovery of a schoolmate’s ly...
How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power
How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring Guide to Power adrienne maree brown 9781932360080 Nonfiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Anyone can write a rant against t...
Gray Dawn (paperback): An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Gray Dawn (paperback): An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley 9780316573245 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Instant USA Today Bestseller In this thrilling mystery from “master of ...
Gray Dawn: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Gray Dawn: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley 9780316573238 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group Easy Rawlins #17 Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life...
Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World Walter Mosley 9781574782356 Fiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press The citizenry of America struggles for survival in a dangerous, twisted future...
Farewell, Amethystine
Farewell, Amethystine Walter Mosley 9780316491112 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia, blinding him to reason and r...
Blood Grove
Blood Grove Walter Mosley 9780316491181 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group "Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in w...
In the Eye of the Storm: My Time as Chairman of Bank of America During the Country’s Worst Financial Crisis
In the Eye of the Storm: My Time as Chairman of Bank of America During the Country’s Worst Financial Crisis Walter E. Massey with Rosalind Kilkenny McLymont 9780931761997 Nonfiction Beckham Publicatio...
The Awkward Black Man
The Awkward Black Man Walter Mosley 9780802149565 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinar...
Bad Boy: A Memoir
Bad Boy: A Memoir Walter Dean Myers 9780064472883 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins A classic memoir that’s gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable from the bestselling fo...
Trouble Is What I Do
Trouble Is What I Do Walter Mosley 9780316491136 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective...
145th Street: Short Stories
145th Street: Short Stories Walter Dean Myers 9780593119662 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of Monster, this collection of powerful and poignant stories abou...
Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History
Black History: An Inclusive Account of American History Walter Milton, Jr. and Joel A. Freeman 9780989850490 Nonfiction CGW360 Publishing CGW360 Publishing In the spirit of cooperative economics this ...
Down the River unto the Sea
Down the River unto the Sea Walter Mosley 9780316509640 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not ...
Sleeping with One Eye Open
Sleeping with One Eye Open Saundra 9781534984516 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Eva Richardson had a rough upbringing, but she stuck to her guns and achieved her goals of graduating coll...
Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley 9780385539203 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new...
Inside A Silver Box
Inside A Silver Box Walter Mosley 9780765375216 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Inside a Silver Box continues to explore the cosmic questions en...
The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles 9780060011383 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and renowned filmmak...
Little Green
Little Green Walter Mosley 9780385535984 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress—a combus...
Scorpions (Anniversary)
Scorpions (Anniversary) Walter Dean Myers 9780064406239 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Now with extra material to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Scorpions!Everyone is getting on Jamal’ss case. The k...
Stepping Stone and Love Machine: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
Stepping Stone and Love Machine: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion Walter Mosley 9780765330109 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and L...
Merge and Disciple: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
Merge and Disciple: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion Walter Mosley 9780765330093 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Merge and Disciple are but two ...
The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion Walter Mosley 9780765330086 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley de...
Hoops
Hoops Walter Dean Myers 9780307976116 Fiction Ember Ember An ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young AdultsNew Bonus Content:-Q&A with Walter Dean Myers-Q&A with screenwriter John Ballard-Teaser chapter from On...
Lockdown
Lockdown Walter Dean Myers 9780061214820 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Walter Dean Myers enjoys speaking with kids in schools and juvenile detention facilities about writing and making positive decisi...
Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation
Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation Walter Mosley 9781568586427 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group In his late teens and early twenties, Walter Mosley was addicted to alcohol and ciga...
When The Thrill Is Gone (Leonid Mcgill)
When The Thrill Is Gone (Leonid Mcgill) Walter Mosley 9781594487811 Fiction Riverhead Hardcover Penguin Random House Leonid McGill is back, in the third-and most enthralling and ambitious-installment ...
The Fall of Heaven
The Fall of Heaven Walter Mosley 9780573601057 Fiction Samuel French Inc Samuel French Inc Dramatic comedy Cahracters: 3 male, 2 female A hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley, best-selling aut...
Kick
Kick Walter Dean Myers 9780062004895 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins For the very first time in his decades-long career writing for teens, acclaimed and beloved author Walter Dean Myers writes with...
The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey
The Path to Freedom: Black Families in New Jersey Walter Greason 9781540204837 Nonfiction History Press Library Editions NHBS The struggle for black freedom and equality is a legacy that belongs to al...
Lockdown
Lockdown Walter Dean Myers 9780061214806 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to ...
Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion
Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion Walter Dean Myers 9780060291310 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins This acclaimed picture book biography is a perfect introduction to the great Muhammad Ali. Re...
Looking Like Me
Looking Like Me Walter Dean Myers 9781606840016 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group When you look in a mirror, who do you see? A boy? A girl? A son? A daughter? A runner? A dancer? Whoe...
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
What They Found: Love on 145th Street Walter Dean Myers 9780375845451 Fiction Wendy Lamb Books Wendy Lamb Books By the groundbreaking author of the award-winning Monster-a visionary who influenced and...
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story
Amiri and Odette: A Love Story Walter Dean Myers 9780590680417 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. In this modern retelling of the Swan Lake ballet, acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers explores th...
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices Walter Dean Myers 9780823422128 Poetry Holiday House Holiday House Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulf...
Ida B. Wells: Let The Truth Be Told
Ida B. Wells: Let The Truth Be Told Walter Dean Myers 9780060277055 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Ida B. Wells was an extraordinary woman. Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. W...
The Glory Field
The Glory Field Walter Dean Myers 9780545055758 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers’ bestselling paperbacks, to coin...
Somewhere In The Darkness
Somewhere In The Darkness Walter Dean Myers 9780545055772 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers’ bestselling paperback...