Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers is the critically acclaimed author of Monster, winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; Bad Boy: A Memoir; Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam, winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award; Game; The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage; Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told, which received a starred review in School Library Journal, and Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champion. His most recent novels are Dope Sick, named an ALA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and Lockdown. He is the recipient of the first Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Margaret A. Edwards Award, is the 2010 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, and the author of five Coretta Scott King Award-winning books.
2013 Battle Schedule
Recent Posts
- Winner of the 2013 Battle of the Kids’ Books
- The Big Kahuna Match: Between The Fault in Our Stars, No Crystal Stair, and Code Name Verity
- This Week’s Peanut Gallery
- And the 2013 BoB Undead Winner Is…
- Round 3, Match 2: Splendors and Glooms vs No Crystal Stair
What People Are Saying…
- Rankingoptimierung on The Big Kahuna Match: Between The Fault in Our Stars, No Crystal Stair, and Code Name Verity
- Edgar Awards, “Briefings,” and ACL Pinterest Page | on And the 2013 BoB Undead Winner Is…
- ‘Code Name Verity,’ ‘The Quick Fix’ Win Edgars | School Library Journal on And the 2013 BoB Undead Winner Is…
- Sonderbooks » Blog Archive » Review of Midwinter Blood, by Marcus Sedgwick on Round 1, Match 5: Jepp, Who Defied the Stars vs Starry River of the Sky
- Josef on The Big Kahuna Match: Between The Fault in Our Stars, No Crystal Stair, and Code Name Verity
- April Shroeder on The Big Kahuna Match: Between The Fault in Our Stars, No Crystal Stair, and Code Name Verity
- Dark Horse ‘No Crystal Stair’ Takes Battle of the Kids’ Books Top Prize | School Library Journal on This Week’s Peanut Gallery
- Dark Horse ‘No Crystal Stair’ Takes Battle of the Kids’ Books Top Prize | School Library Journal on Downloadable Graphics
- Alyson on The Big Kahuna Match: Between The Fault in Our Stars, No Crystal Stair, and Code Name Verity
- Nina Lindsay on The Big Kahuna Match: Between The Fault in Our Stars, No Crystal Stair, and Code Name Verity
