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Using documentary style interviews Case 219 examines the interconnected relationships among the shooter, his friends, their tormentors at school, and their parents. The film unfolds through the eyes of a Los Angeles Times journalist researching a story for the tenth anniversary of this tragedy and in watching the interviews we discover the ...
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia , but was raised in Harlem , New York City .
The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary shootings, that consisted of murders and robberies in several states, and lasted for six months starting in February ...
Handbook for Boys: A Novel, Walter Dean Myers (2002) The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage, Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles (2005) Harlem Renaissance Party, Faith Ringgold (2015) Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Ann Petry (1995) Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood, Jill Watts (2007)
The Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children's Literature, known as "The Walters,” was created by the American nonprofit We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) in 2014, and the inaugural award was presented in 2016. [1]
The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy, The Chisholm Trail, 1871 by Walter Dean Myers (April 1999) The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 by Walter Dean Myers (June 1999) The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, Nebraska and Points West, 1867 by William Durbin ...
On December 8, 2020, in Williamsburg, West Virginia, United States, 25-year-old Oreanna Myers shot and killed five children, aged between one and seven, with a shotgun before setting her house on fire and committing suicide. Myers was the biological mother of three of the children, and the stepmother of the other two.
Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014), African American author of young adult literature; Walter Kendall Myers (born 1937), spy for Cuba who worked for the United States State Department; Walter Myers (physician) (1872–1901), British physician, toxicologist and parasitologist; Walter Myers Jr. (1914–1967), Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court