Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.

Harlem summer / by Walter Dean Myers. - New York : Scholastic Press, c2007. - 165 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.



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Harlem Renaissance--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.

Fic M9921 2007