Description
Description
"If I publish a book," Duke said, "I'm going to call it Handbook for Boys."
Growing up is tough...really tough.
But what if you had a handbook that told you how to figure things out? How to stay out of trouble? How to think about success? How to think about the guy on the street?
At Duke's Place, Jimmy and Kevin find out that the handbook isn't written down. It means listening to Duke and his friends talk about their lives. But how can Duke, a senior citizen, understand what it is to be young now?
In the tradition of his award-winning book Monster, Walter Dean Myers once again breaks new ground with this extraordinary, original, and complex novel about learning to be a man.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A novel that will get readers thinking. A great choice for counselors working with teens like Jimmy, and as a spark for debates. A novel that will get readers thinking." -- KLIATT
"Myers's passion and concern for adolescent boys infuses the [novel] and gives it a heartfelt urgency." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Readers will be hooked." -- Publishers Weekly
"As a handbook, it could touch many lives." -- School Library Journal
"Myers presents the real-life pitfalls of young people in clear and concise language." -- Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
"Jimmy and Kevin are engaging, and believable, and sympathetic characters, and the Harlem setting is, as always in Myers's work, richly drawn." -- Riverbank Review
"I've been waiting for somebody to write this book. It doesn't surprise me that Walter, who's dedicated to these young people, has written it." -- Nate "Tiny" Archibald
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