Best Selling Books by Walter Dean Myers

Newbery and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Walter Dean Myers''s the WWII Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging! On the night of June 5, 1944, Scott Pendleton Collins is on a boat approaching Normandy, France. He''s been stationed in England for weeks, and he and his unit are bored. They want to be out in the fi elds, doing something to help the Allied forces. But as his boat approaches the beach, Scott suddenly realizes what he and his comrades are up against, and it is an impossible invasion. Nothing in basic training, nothing he''s heard from other soldiers, nothing he has ever experienced prepares Scott for what awaits on Omaha Beach. As D-Day rages around him, Scott is separated from his original unit. Lost in the chaos, he does everything he can to survive. Involved in one of the most famous invasions in history, Scott''s story is one of bravery and victory, heartache and pain, loss and survival.

Walter Dean Myers presents a thrilling record of Antarctica and the expedition parties that have uncovered the frozen continent throughout history. Walter Dean Myers brings the dramatic race to the South Pole to life in Antarctica, tracking the explorers of the South Pole - including James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, and Richard Evelyn Bird - and the dangers they encountered there, as well as their contributions to science. The heroism and adventure - and sometimes the ultimate failure - of the expeditions are depicted in Myers''s powerful prose, and through the photos, maps, and illustrations that complement the text.

Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she''s blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamorous career as a model in New York City. At first, modeling is exciting. But soon, her life becomes less and less about her, and more and more about her body. Crystal wonders if her new life is worth giving up everything -- her friends, her beliefs, and her self-respect.

Relates events in Martin Luther King, Jr.''s, childhood, which sowed the seeds for his activism for equal rights for people, regardless of their color.

Cindy''s friend, Karin, needs a break, so Cindy agrees to babysit one evening. However, when Karin decides she needs more time to figure out her life, Cindy and her friends must manage to take care of the baby.

A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.

Friends Zander, Kambui, LaShonda, and Bobbi, caught in the middle of a mock Civil War at DaVinci Academy, learn the true cost of freedom of speech when they use their alternative newspaper, The Cruiser, to try to make peace.

Captured, and about to be killed, a young African princess is dramatically rescued by a British naval officer. Taken to England, she is presented at court to Queen Victoria. As an important friendship begins, Sarah embarks on a whole new life. This incredible true story is retold alongside real letters, photographs and historical documents. Recounted with insight and empathy by Walter Dean Myers, the US National Ambassador for Young People''s Literature 2012-2013, this is an important reflection on royalty, race, class, belonging and - above all - identity.

Few men in American history are as controversial as Malcolm X. In this provocative biography, Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, presents a forthright portrait of a complex man whose life reflected the major events of our times.

Teenager Biddy Owens'' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family''s resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.

Pictures and easy-to-read text introduce the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.