Harlem Summer

by Walter Dean Myers

Other authorsWalter Dean Myers (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2007

Publication

Scholastic Press (2007), 165 pages

Description

In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2007

Pages

165

Physical description

165 p.; 8.75 inches

ISBN

043936843X / 9780439368438

DDC/MDS

813
Page: 0.1396 seconds