Harlem

Title:Harlem
Author: Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 0-590-54341-5

In the book Harlem, they talk about the place called Harlem and how no matter what color skin you are, it is okay to be there. it tells you all about the life of the people there.
Harlem is a book of poetry. Although it doesn't have many rhyming words the sentences flow and when you read them, you can tell it is a poem. one section of the book that you can read and see that it flows is when it says "a weary blues that langston knew
and countee sung
a river of blues where Du Bois waded
and baldwin preached" (Harlem 14)
I thought that the book wasa pretty okay book even though i didn't understand much of it until i read it a couple of times. it has pretty good points in the story that it shows about racial things. i would recommend this book for people who mite enjoy poetry beacuse even though there aren't many rhyming words, it has words that can

Mayers, Walter. Harlem. USA: Scholastics Inc., 1998.


-Juliane A.