Harlem Summer
Myers, Walter Dean
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BOOK SUMMARY
It's 1925 and Mark Purvis is a 16-yr-old with a summer to kill. He'd rather jam with his jazz band (they need the practice), but is urged by his parents to get a job. As an assistant at The Crisis, a magazine for the "new Negro," Mark rubs shoulders with
BOOK SYNOPSIS
In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 043936843X
ISBN(13-digit): 043936843X
Dewey Decimal: [Fic]
Library of Congress: 2006046812
Book Publisher: Scholastic
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 176
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