Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie, his father. Lonnie's got his own thing going on, and he...

Walter Dean Myers is the New York Times bestselling author of Monster , the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award, the current National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and...

“A winner.”