About the Book: Handbook for Boys
In the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winning Monster and Bad Boy: A
Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a highly readable, powerful novel about the
rules for success for young men, especially those navigating coming of age while
Black.
Jimmy and Kevin could use a guide to life. When each of the boys gets in the
kind of trouble that almost lands them in juvenile detention, their neighbor
Duke steps in and offers them jobs in his Harlem barbershop.
The regulars at the barbershop seriously get on Jimmys nerves. Duke, Cap, and
Mister M all seem determined to give the