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Author Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-2014.

Title What they found : love on 145th street / Walter Dean Myers.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Wendy Lamb Books, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Young Adult Fiction  YA Myers    ---  Billed
Edition 1st ed.
Description 243 p. ; 22 cm.
Study Program AR RL 5.1 8.0 PHS
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Summary Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.
Contents The fashion show, grand opening, and bar-b-que memorial service -- What would Jesus do? -- Mama -- The life you need to have -- Burn -- Some men are just funny that way -- Jump at the sun -- Law and order -- The man thing -- Society for the Preservation of Sorry-Butt Negroes -- Madonna -- The real deal -- Marisol and Skeeter -- Poets and plumbers -- Combat zone.
Subject Short stories.
Romance fiction.
Families -- Juvenile fiction.
Beauty shops -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Love -- Fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Beauty shops -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780385321389 (alk. paper) : $15.99

 
    
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