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Harlem Summer
ALAN Review, Summer 2007 by Hayn, Judith A
Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers Scholastic, 2007, 176 pp., $15.99 Harlem Renaissance ISBN-13: 978-0-439-36843-8
Harlem Summer is the raucous story of 16-year-old Mark Purvis; the year is 1925, and he has the summer to fill with adventure. Mark's brother, Matt, is heading off to college; Daddy works as a handyman, while Mama tries to corral her three men into good behavior.
Mark goes to work at The Crisis, published by the man who believes in the concept of the New Negro, William E. B. DuBois. Mark makes friends with the literary editor, Jessie Pauset, and Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Alfred Knopf and more-many of the contributors to the Harlem Renaissance. At the same time, he becomes involved with running illegal whiskey. His dream to be a jazz musician has led him to an unhealthy relationship with Fats Waller, the famous blues pianist.
Mark learns, like all of us, that making choices has consequences. This book is a pageturner, rich in historical detail.
Judith A. Hayn
Little Rock, AR
Copyright Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English Summer 2007
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