Interest Level
Grades 4 - 9
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: Not Available
Lexile Measure®: Not Available
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: Not Available
Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Multicultural
- Young Adult
Theme/Subject
- African American History
- Summer
- African American
- Music
- Summer Themes
About This Book
Mark Purvis works downtown at The Crisis publishing office, but all he really wants is a chance to wail on his saxophone and impress Fats Waller, Harlem's own piano-playing musical giant. Fats offers mark another opportunity first: a simple little delivery job for some fast cash.
Too bad the delivery goes awry.
Too bad the cold-blooded gangster Dutch Schultz was in on the deal and wants his money from Mark...or else!
Walter Dean Myer's beautifully written novel is a poignant, often hilarious coming-of-age story of one boy navigating his way through Harlem's happening streets and into his own manhood.
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