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Myers, Walter Dean.
145TH STREET SHORT STORIES
New York : Delacorte, 2000.
IL YA
ISBN 0385321376
145th Street Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers begins with a story about a funeral for a man who is not dead and ends it with a block party-145th Street Style!  In between, you'll get to know Peaches and her best friend Squeezie, spend Christmas with Mother Fletcher and her unlikely dinner guests. Find out what happens to Monkeyman when the Tigros gang targets him. You'll meet Kitty, who knows that love can save, and find out why the baddest dog in Harlem isn't a dog at all.  These are just a few of the stories from 145th Street. One street. One block. Ten unforgettable stories. (Virginia Wright, wrightvi@oplin.lib.oh.us)
SUBJECTS:     Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
                        African Americans -- Fiction.
                        Short stories

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