All the Right Stuff

Name: All the Right Stuff
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 9781464041907

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: Brandon Gill

Unabridged: 4 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/24/2012

Categories: Children's Fiction, African American & Black Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

A National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Walter Dean Myers is also a three-time National Book Award finalist and the recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award. In All the Right Stuff, Paul DuPree is spending the summer working at a Harlem soup kitchen. There, Elijah the soup man tries to teach Paul about life- but Paul's more interested in hanging out with Keisha, a teen mom who shares his love of basketball. Before long, Paul realizes this summer is about more than just getting by- it's about taking charge of his life.

About Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and a three-time National Book Award Finalist as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joyce

This is a "heavy" novel. It makes you think about all the things that are not quite right in America. The story takes place in Harlem, New York. Teen Paul Dupree lands a summer job working at a soup kitchen for the elderly man Elijah. During the summer Paul and Elijah discuss the "social contract" p......more

Goodreads review by grieshaber.reads

It's Walter Dean Myers so you know it's quick, well written, and centers on minority characters. These are all excellent things. And the minority character in All the Right Stuff is a good kid who makes good choices. I love that. So often when minority characters are featured, the opposite is true. P......more

Goodreads review by Robyn

I love Walter Dean Myers, but I fear that this will read as too preachy for the boys that love to read his books. Paul is a teenage boy who gets a job with Elijah at a soup kitchen in Harlem. Elijah shares his ideas on a social contract with Paul and it makes Paul think about how that affects him an......more