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Harlem Summer

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014. Book - 2012 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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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.

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A Bit of History submitted by Beth Manuel on August 3, 2016, 9:41am This was pretty good. Sometimes I got confused by the different characters because there several. I could appreciate the honest voice of Mark Purvis as a black teenager in the 20's. I also liked the additional notes at the end indicating some of the real people and places mentioned in the book. Most notably, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes & Fats Waller. There was some wry humor as well.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Scholastic Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 165 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780439368445
0439368448

SUBJECTS
Harlem Renaissance -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Coming of age -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.