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Symbolism is a literary device in which an author uses objects, words, characters, places, and sometimes. Cancel online anytime and keep all your audiobooks. Maurice anderson who likes to be called reese lived in the wrong part of town, he is in jail and wants to get out. Apr 21, 2011 book trailer created by savannah dobson, who is an eighth grader from pawnee, texas.
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Written by walter dean myers, audiobook narrated by j. Into a memoir that is gripping, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, walter dean myers richly weaves the details of his harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s. Myers stories and novels paint a powerful picture of the pressures of growing up on big city streets. Walter dean myers 19372014 was an american writer of childrens books best known for young adult literature. Walter dean myers was the new york times bestselling author of monster, the winner of the first michael l. I was born on a thursday, the 12th of august, 1937, in martinsburg, west virginia. Its neither as depressing as it could be or as eyerolling optimistic as you might expect.
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