Walter Dean Myers's Lockdown

In this book a boy named Haroon and a boy named Jay get a point of view. Jay is white, kind of a jock, and on the football team. Haroon is brown, smart and on the Reach for the Top team(which is like a team that answers trivia and competes with other schools). It all starts off when the school goes on a lockdown where police are rushing in the school with dogs and bombarding the hallways. Jay and his friends Kevin and Steve go on the rooftop of the school thinking it is just a regular drill, but then they look down and see a bunch of police cars and they see police that look like swat teams. They see down that the police has taken 2 brown kids with handcuffs. When they go back down the principal makes an announcement telling all students to leave the building immediately.

Walter Dean Myers’ memoir Bad Boy is about how he traveled back to his past. This book that he wrote is, funny, and unforgettable. As a boy, Myers had a quick-temper, was physically strong, and was always ready for a fight. He also read voraciously, as he would check out books from the library and carry them home, hidden in brown paper bags in order to avoid other boys' teasing. He aspired to be a writer.

This book is about a teenage boy named Kamran who is the star on the football team and is very smart. His brother Darius is in the military and Kamran wants to join the military like his brother. One day, Darius is blamed for a terrorist attack on the U.S. Kamran’s life is completely flipped upside down and the people he thought were his friends have now turned on him and his family. Kamran has to find ways

Terrified and confused, the two greasers hurry to find Dally, the one person the think can help them. Dally sends them with a gun and some money to an abandoned church near Windrixvill, where they hide out for a week, they cut their hair to disguise their appearances. After a week, dally comes to check on them, and says that since bob died, the Socs and the greasers have become worse then ever, a giant rumble is to be held the next night to settle the matters once and for all. Cherry feels responsible for the whole problem, acted as a spy for the greasers. Johnny surprises Dally by declaring his intention to go back to Tulsa and turn himself in. Dally drives them back, but as they leave, the notice that the church has caught on fire and it had a large group of schoolchildren inside. Ponyboy and Johnny rush inside the church to save the children. Just when they get the last child through the window, the roof caves in and Ponyboy blacks out again.

The Book Thief was written by Australia writer Markus Zusak in 2005. The novel focuses on Liesel, a 12 year old

Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12th, 1937 and died on July 1, 2014. Myers was born in Martinsburg, Virginia, lived in Harlem during his primary and secondary education, and stayed in Morristown, New Jersey after he finished his service in the military/army. He is part of the following families, the Myers, the Deans and the Greens. Dean was born from the Greens and Myers and was adopted by the Deans. He has gone through primary, secondary education, even though he rarely participated and received an honorary degree when he was 76 from Caldwell College. The training Walter has gone through are military training and most likely potty training.

Walter Dean Myers, born Walter Milton Myers, was born on August 12th, 1937 and died on July 1st 2014. He was an American author for children’s book. He wrote over 100 books including picture books and nonfiction books. Two of his most famous books arguably if not his most famous books are Monster (1999) and Fallen Angel (1988).

This book is called Forged by Fire, by Sharon M. Drapper. In the book Gerald has to grow up with many challenges. The book takes place in the Hazelwood area. Gerald is a three year old boy who lives with his single mom. Gerald's mom is a major drug addict, she doesn't really take good care of Gerald. If he were to have a “accident”, she would make him keep it in his pants or not change him till the end of the day as a lesson to him. Gerald has many problems to deal with in this book, but the main one is having to deal with Jordan, his mom's husband who abuses all 3 of them, Monique (mom), Gerald, and Angel (sister). But worst of all Gerald has to deal with the fact that Jordan is sexually abusing Angel.

Walter Dean Myers was born in august 12, 1937 in Martinsburg while in school, he played Harlem basketball. Mr. Myers lived in New York, New Jersey, and Martinsburg etc. Dean Myers wrote tons of books like Bad Boy, Fallen Angle, and Monster. He wrote all types of books in different kind of genres.

The book the I am reading is called Dead And Gone, By Norah McClintock. Furthermore the book is about an 14 year old boy named Mike who's parents have died and know has to live with his foster parent John Riel. In the book Mike has to serve community service for stealing CD's. Working at the community center Mike meets a girl who's mother got murdered, And Riel knows something about the murder because he was an ex police officer. During this time, the police had found a body that mite of been Emily's mother. The main theme of the book is crime, murder, drama, adventure, and thriller.

This book is about how this kid named Donovan Curtis who knocked down a humongous globe, destroys a school gym, and goes into a school for the GT students. But he does get caught by the superintendent of the district, Dr. Schultz. But luckily Dr. Schultz had to go do something. That's when Donovan made a run for it.

Adam tells Charles that they could go travel but hears Cathy covered in blood and dirt. They decide to take her in and clean her up. They call a docter and find out she is badly injured. Adam decides to take care of her and the doctor decides to tell the sherif abou the girl. Adam wrorries Adam helps Charles remove the rocks from the farm that the sherif is borthering Cathy iwth questions Cathy states that she cants remember her name and that t she has her thoughts mixed upl Cathy doesn't want the sherrif to know she set the fire and becomes scared. Adam cooked for cathy but Charles does not trust Cathy. He doesn't like how foreign she looks. He tells Cathy she has been talking in her sleep and he believes she is evil. He noticed Cathy’s nervouness and tells her that if she does not leave he will tell the sheriff. Cathy feares Charles but tells Adam that she is afriad that he lied about loosing her memory. SHe asks him to trust her and uses him to make him take care of her. Adam felt love for Cathy and asks her to marry him. cathy tells him noot to tell CHarles. Cathy decides to marry Adam because he was afraid and needed the protection/money. She knew she could c9ontrol and use

In the movie Lockdown created in 2000 by John Luessenhop tells a story of three friends wrongful convicted and sent to prison and the problems they deal with while incarnated. In the beginning of the movie Avery Montgomery which is the main chartartcer is taking time off from college to spend time with his girlfriend Krista , and help raise their young son. Though the movieportray the possibility to be a black professional swimmers to be rare, Avery is skilled to swim at a championship level, so when he has an remarkable win he gets offered a scholarship. Cashmere is also an important character that is Avery 's best friends since childhood. Though their personalities and lifestyles are very different, for instance Avery tries to

He asked iff he could get the day off but when he did she told him in a firm voice, ‘no’, he said that he had found something clearly very valueble and deserved that rest time. The thing she said next seemed crazy. “Stanley do you know why this camp exsits?, stanly said no. “ Whe wernt tring to build you charecter we where just haveing you dig so you could find this. Now that I have it I dont need this camp anymore. Stanle wass puzzled and asked where he would go. The warden told him he was going to be set free and so was zero. The other boys will be transferd to a prison. In some couicidensce stanleys lawer showed up one minuet later. Stanly told her what the warden said and she told stanly that she was here to talk about that. Behind her where people that looked like government officers and police. In the wardens cabin there was some yelling and the warden came out crying with the case stanley fond in the lawers arms. One of the officers told stanley that they found out the real reason this camp exsited and where shuting it down. During the ride out of the camp the only thing stanly was was confused. When he got home his parents seemed happy but then sad. They told stanly that

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson novel Target accounts the life of a sixteen year old boy name Grady West . Grady was your average high school sixteen year old who hung out with a group of friends, very outgoing, and likable. But, everything changed on a tragic uneventful November night. While walking home Grady was attack, beaten, and raped. From that very moment Grady’s life changed. He would no longer became the Grady he once was to his friends, family, and even to himself. Grady tried to escape his friends, old school, and what happened that night. But, every so often the memories reoccur. A year later, he now attended Thomas Jefferson High where no one would know who he was and what had happened to him. His journey at his new school is