Crystal

Name: Crystal
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter Dean Myers
ISBN: 9781470393595

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Unabridged: 5 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/10/2014

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

Synopsis

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.

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 Ms.

If you like Walter Dean Myers, you'll probably like this book. But if you want to be a model or are interested in modeling, you will definitely like this book. It talks all about a girl who is getting into modeling and what her life is like and what struggles she faces.......more

Goodreads review by Lauren

Published in 1987 and then 2002. (For author study). Realistic fiction. themes: narcissism, discovering self identity, friendship. This book was about a girl, Crystal, who was getting into a modeling career and struggled with being a good friend and making good choices. I think it would be nice to u......more

Goodreads review by Heather

This is a story of adults behaving badly. Crystal has a promising modeling career, but is increasingly asked to do things that she is not comfortable with. I felt sorrow for the choices she was faced with and anger for the adults who applied pressure instead of support.......more

Goodreads review by Mrs Tupac

Nope nope nope this book wasn’t gainful at all . Crystal was too damn naive to come off as a real teen ……! The adults trying to drain her were so disrespectful, Racist , superficial and giving off a temporary lifestyle crystal’s mother was pushing her into modeling she didn’t even run away around fr......more