Bild på författaren.

Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)

Författare till Monster

153+ verk 32,726 medlemmar 1,185 recensioner 21 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsberg, West Virginia. When he was three years old, his mother died and his father sent him to live with Herbert and Florence Dean in Harlem, New York. He began writing stories while in his teens. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in visa mer the Army at the age of 17. After completing his army service, he took a construction job and continued to write. He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness, at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Serier

Verk av Walter Dean Myers

Monster (1999) 5,077 exemplar
Fallen Angels (1988) 1,885 exemplar
Sunrise Over Fallujah (2008) 1,350 exemplar
Slam! (1996) 1,250 exemplar
Bad Boy: A Memoir (2001) 1,170 exemplar
Somewhere In The Darkness (1992) 1,091 exemplar
Scorpions (1988) 1,044 exemplar
The Glory Field (1994) 803 exemplar
Hoops (2008) 757 exemplar
Harlem (1997) 699 exemplar
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali (2001) 577 exemplar
Shooter (2004) 480 exemplar
Lockdown (2010) 424 exemplar
The Cruisers (2010) 404 exemplar
145th Street: Short Stories (2000) 398 exemplar
Game (2008) 370 exemplar
Riot (2009) 357 exemplar
Dope Sick (2009) 357 exemplar
Street Love (2006) 335 exemplar
Monster: A Graphic Novel (2015) 333 exemplar
Handbook for Boys: A Novel (2002) 323 exemplar
Jazz (2006) 321 exemplar
Looking Like Me (2009) 298 exemplar
The Beast (2003) 268 exemplar
Darius & Twig (2013) 259 exemplar
Harlem Summer (2007) 253 exemplar
Kick (2011) 245 exemplar
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff (1975) 241 exemplar
Darnell Rock Reporting (1994) 230 exemplar
Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid (1988) 222 exemplar
All the Right Stuff (2012) 206 exemplar
Invasion (2013) 185 exemplar
The Weather Baby (2000) 180 exemplar
Blues Journey (2003) 179 exemplar
The Outside Shot (1984) 178 exemplar
The Mouse Rap (1990) 177 exemplar
The Young Landlords (1979) 177 exemplar
Won't Know Till I Get There (1875) 170 exemplar
The Dream Bearer (2003) 159 exemplar
Juba!: A Novel (2015) 156 exemplar
Shadow of the Red Moon (1995) 141 exemplar
On a Clear Day (2014) 132 exemplar
The Legend of Tarik (1981) 130 exemplar
The Story of the Three Kingdoms (1995) 128 exemplar
Crystal (1987) 123 exemplar
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom (1997) 120 exemplar
Love Story (Amiri And Odette) (2009) 115 exemplar
The Cruisers Book 2: Checkmate (2011) 112 exemplar
It Ain't All for Nothin' (1979) 107 exemplar
Just Write: Here's How! (2012) 105 exemplar
The Blues of Flats Brown (2000) 72 exemplar
Motown and Didi (1862) 65 exemplar
Carmen (2011) 65 exemplar
Tales of a Dead King (1983) 58 exemplar
The dragon takes a wife (1995) 56 exemplar
Victory for Jamie (1977) 45 exemplar
Cruisers Book 4: Oh, Snap! (2013) 39 exemplar
The Golden Serpent (1980) 36 exemplar
Three Swords for Granada (2002) 31 exemplar
Looking for the Easy Life (2011) 25 exemplar
SORT OF SISTERS (18 Pine St) (1992) 11 exemplar
Fighter (2003) 11 exemplar
Where does the day go? (1969) 11 exemplar
The Test (1992) 9 exemplar
The get over a short story (2013) 7 exemplar
Sweet illusions (1987) 6 exemplar
Brainstorm (1977) 5 exemplar
Fly, Jimmy, fly! (1974) 5 exemplar
The dancers (1972) 5 exemplar
Mojo and the Russians (1977) 5 exemplar
The Party (18 Pine St. #2) (1992) 4 exemplar
TAKING SIDES (18 Pine St) (1994) 3 exemplar
Harlem blues (1996) 3 exemplar
The Nicholas Factor (1983) 3 exemplar
Pirate a short story (2011) 2 exemplar
The Prince (18 Pine Street) (1992) 2 exemplar
Sky Man (18 Pine Street) (1994) 2 exemplar
INTENSIVE CARE (18 Pine St) (1993) 2 exemplar
The House With 9 Rooms (2011) 2 exemplar
Peto (2000) 2 exemplar
Tags (HarperTeen Impulse) (2013) 2 exemplar
The magic forest 1 exemplar
Sg Fallen Angels W/Conn (2001) 1 exemplar
Monster - Activity Pack (2005) 1 exemplar
The Cruisers 1 exemplar
The glory field 1 exemplar
the outsider 1 exemplar
18 pine st. 1 exemplar
Monstrul 1 exemplar
Potwor (2021) 1 exemplar
The Golden Serpent 1 exemplar
The Diary (18 Pine Street) (1994) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Dracula (1897) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor34,828 exemplar
Guys Write for Guys Read (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 764 exemplar
Flying Lessons and Other Stories (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 573 exemplar
Fresh Ink: An Anthology (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 365 exemplar
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 342 exemplar
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 316 exemplar
Guys Read: Thriller (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 315 exemplar
Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 204 exemplar
Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 107 exemplar
Every Man for Himself: Ten Original Stories About Being a Guy (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 95 exemplar
The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 89 exemplar
Necessary Noise: Stories About Our Families as They Really Are (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 81 exemplar
Visions: 19 Short Stories (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
911: The Book of Help (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 49 exemplar
Best African American Fiction (2009) (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 47 exemplar
Center Stage: One-Act Plays for Teenage Readers and Actors (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 47 exemplar
Celebrate Cricket: 30 Years of Stories and Art (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Trapped!: Cages of Mind and Body (1938) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Twelve Shots (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 39 exemplar
Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 37 exemplar
Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 35 exemplar
Don't Give Up the Ghost: A Book of Ghost Stories (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
Funny You Should Ask (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar

Taggad

1800-talet (654) afro-amerikaner (368) afro-amerikansk (944) Basket (263) bilderbok (285) biografi (502) brittisk litteratur (242) brott (212) Dracula (468) e-bok (278) England (218) facklitteratur (415) fantasy (706) gotik (900) Harlem (250) historia (372) historisk skönlitteratur (586) Kindle (211) klassiker (1,366) klassiker (1,265) krig (328) litteratur (592) läst (516) noveller (616) poesi (435) roman (1,142) ska läsas (1,104) skräck (3,018) skönlitteratur (4,518) sport (387) storlek:medel (235) storlek:stor (309) Transsylvanien (205) unga vuxna (804) unga vuxna (695) Vampyr (603) vampyrer (2,239) verklighetsavbildande litteratur (796) viktoriansk (297) övernaturligt (219)

Allmänna fakta

Medlemmar

Diskussioner

Monster by Walter Dean Myer i EDE3343 Teaching Adol Lit MS Sp 2012 (januari 2012)

Recensioner

Representation: Black characters
Trigger warnings: Murder, imprisonment, physical assault and injury, blood depiction, drug use mentioned
Score: Six points out of ten.
Find this review on The StoryGraph.

I saw Monster displayed on the shelves of a library I went to so after I read another book, I immediately seized the opportunity to get it by picking it up. Afterwards, I read Monster, but when I finished it, I thought it had flaws that forced me to lower its rating. Maybe the original text will be a better reading experience for me.

It starts with the first person I see, Steve Harmon, who is arrested and awaiting trial for a murder accusation. He finds an opportunity to live through that journey like it is a movie, and thus the court case begins. There are some flashbacks to explain what happened before the police arrested Steve like the other characters who committed a robbery and, most prominently, the murder of a person. Despite Monster being under 200 pages, it still felt slow paced, allowing me to see the flaws, of which there are many. Why is the art black and white? I can understand that to be intentional, but I would've liked it if the art was full colour. The characters were hard to connect or relate with and the font was hard to read, dampening my reading experience. The conclusion petered out as the legal drama comes to an end.
… (mer)
 
Flaggad
Law_Books600 | 24 andra recensioner | Feb 26, 2024 |
I enjoyed this book. I liked the journal entries better than the film script parts though. Maybe that was because I read it too fast; I don't know. But I can say I have never read a novel like this before.
 
Flaggad
Dances_with_Words | 348 andra recensioner | Jan 6, 2024 |
I read the original version first (the non graphic novel). I like the idea of this as a graphic novel, but after reading this I think the original book was a better format. The story is impactful in both formats, but I think it works better in the original.
 
Flaggad
Dances_with_Words | 24 andra recensioner | Jan 6, 2024 |
This is a book about a school assignment. Sounds boring, right? Well, I think it managed to be as interesting as a book about a school assignment can be. See, there are these 8th graders: Zander, Kambui, Bobbi and LaShonda, collectively known as "The Cruisers" after an alternative school newspaper they produce. The Cruisers, all of them smart but unmotivated when it comes to school, are assigned to play the role of peacekeepers in a kind of mock Civil War going on at their school. The kids playing the part of the Confederacy take things too far, to the point where they offend people, especially the African-American students. Zander (who narrates the book) is one of the few black students at the school and the lead peacekeeper, so it ends up falling to him to put the Confederacy students in their place.

Zander has a unique way of putting things when he's trying to argue his point. For example, he won't get into a fight if he can't see the "win" in it. He keeps his cool as tempers flare over accusations of racism and arguments about free speech, so we get a pretty thoughtful, if slightly detached, discussion of slavery, history, and middle school culture. I wondered as I read if the Confederacy students really were purposely offensive, or if they were just callous or naive, but that's not really the point of the book. The point is how to deal with complex, senstive issues once they've been raised.

The book includes editorial pieces from The Cruiser as well as the official school paper. As I said, it's almost entirely focused on the Civil War assignment, but we do get to learn a little about the Cruisers' home lives. The parts with Zander and his actress mother were nice breaks from the school drama. I've heard there will be three other books to follow, probably one from the perspective of each Cruiser. Will they give up their lackadaisical attitude towards school by the end of the series? Maybe that's not the point...
… (mer)
 
Flaggad
LibrarianDest | 9 andra recensioner | Jan 3, 2024 |

Listor

Priser

Du skulle kanske också gilla

Associerade författare

Statistik

Verk
153
Även av
30
Medlemmar
32,726
Popularitet
#591
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
1,185
ISBN
1,114
Språk
7
Favoritmärkt
21

Tabeller & diagram