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Author:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Title:

All the right stuff [book] / by Walter Dean Myers.

Format:

[book] /

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Amistad,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

213 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Social contract--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Social contract--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
REALISTIC

Summary:

The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African-American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.

Indexed by:

Wilson's Senior High School, November 2012.
School Library Journal, May 2012.
Pub Weekly, April 2012.
Booklist, February 2012.
Horn Book, May 2012.
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), June 2012.
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2012.
Kirkus Review, February 2012.

ISBN:

9780061960895
0061960896

Locations:

3HSX245 -- Denison High School (Denison)