Bad Boy: A Memoir
by Walter Dean Myers
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2001
Word Count 45,884
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 970L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 49772, 8 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Authorship
- Authors, American
- 20th century
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics | Peer Pressure
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Boys & Men
- Children's stories--Authorship--Juvenile literature
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014--Childhood and youth
- Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African American
- African American authors--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Literary
- Young Adult Biography
- African Americans
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature
- Childhood and youth
- African Americans--Biography
- African American authors
- Children's stories
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Meet-the-Author Movie with Walter Dean Myers
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Walter Dean Myers reads from Bad Boy: A Memoir
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Interview with Walter Dean Myers
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Children’s Literature Legacy Award Speech given by Christopher Myers on behalf of Walter Dean Myers
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May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, 2009, given by Walter Dean Myers
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Vocabulary Lists 2
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