AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Walter
Dean Myers
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Press PUBLICATION DATE: 1997
AWARDS: Caldecott Honor Book, 1998; Coretta Scott King Award;Selected
title of the White Ravens, 1998; Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Fiction
Honor, 1997
GENRE: Poetry: 1 poem READING
LEVEL: 4th grade and up
Tells of the discrimination that new settlers of
Harlem searching for better a better life experienced
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Students will write a poem using haiku,
sonnet, or cross-rhyming. They will then recite their poem for the class.
REVIEWER’S NAME &
AFFILIATION: Anika Perry, Valdosta
State University
