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      Harlem Summer

      by Walter Dean Myers
      Published
      Mar 2007
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      165
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      Walter Dean Myers delivers a humorous, action-packed historical novel set during the Harlem Renaissance.

      It's 1925 and Mark Purvis is a 16-year-old with a summer to kill. He'd rather jam with his jazz band (they need the practice), but is urged by his parents to get a job. As an assistant at THE CRISIS, a magazine for the "new Negro," Mark rubs shoulders with Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. He's invited to a party at Alfred Knopf's place. He's making money, but not enough, and when piano player Fats Waller entices him and his buddies to make some fast cash, Mark finds himself crossing the gangster Dutch Schultz.

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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      May 2012 Scholastic ISBN 0439368448
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      First Edition Mar 2007 Scholastic ISBN 043936843X
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