Darius Twig, Walter Dean Myers
Darius Twig, Walter Dean Myers
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Darius & Twig

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: Brandon Gill

Unabridged: 4 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/23/2013

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author and Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers once again connects with teenagers everywhere in Darius & Twig, a novel about friendship and needing to live your own dream. Darius and Twig are an unlikely pair: Darius is a writer whose only escape is his alter ego, a peregrine falcon named Fury, and Twig is a middle-distance runner striving for athletic success. But they are drawn together in the struggle to overcome the obstacles that Harlem life throws at them. The two friends must face down bullies, an abusive uncle, and the idea that they' ll be stuck in the same place forever in this touching and raw new teen novel from Walter Dean Myers, award-winning author of Monster, Kick, We Are America, Bad Boy, and many other celebrated literary works for children and teens.

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.

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Goodreads review by Monique

“It didn’t do any good being smart. If you were smart and if the world had been right side up, then you would be rewarded for being smart. But the way the word really worked, the way it went down especially when it came to dudes like me, was that you had to walk a path to show you were smart, and it......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

Previously, I had not read anything by Walter Dean Myers, which now seems a shame. I know the titles of plenty of his books, and have even picked up a few and said to myself, “Sir, you ought to read this book.” Before setting it back on the library shelf. I heretofore intend to justify this problem......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

Summary and Critique: Darius comes form a single-parent household in Harlem. He's a good kid and cares a lot about school but struggles with dealing things when everything isn't in his favor. He's an amazing writer but doesn't think he has a chance to get a scholarship for college. He has supportive......more

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