Brief Summary Of Walter Dean Myers Bad Boy

In Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers (the author) is the main character; primarily the memoir is about Myers’ life and what he went through while growing up in Harlem during a time where segregation had not been dismissed yet. Myers first began by introducing his background, his great-great uncle had been a slave and Florence Dean was the woman he called “mama,” although his birth mother had died when he was very young. Myers was a bright young boy, but often got into trouble at school for fighting his peers who made fun of the way he spoke. Throughout his years at school he found a love for book, they completed an emptiness inside him; however, he kept his passion a secret.
Myers talks about his troubles at school throughout the book and how teachers