Myers, Walter Dean.
What they found : love on 145th Street / by Walter Dean Myers. - 1st ed. - New York : Lamb, c2007. - 243 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
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.
9780385321389 (alk. paper) 9780375937095 (alk. paper)
2007007057
Love--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Beauty shops--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
What they found : love on 145th Street / by Walter Dean Myers. - 1st ed. - New York : Lamb, c2007. - 243 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
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.
9780385321389 (alk. paper) 9780375937095 (alk. paper)
2007007057
Love--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Beauty shops--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.