Key Features Description Mark Purvis works downtown at The Crisis publishing office, but all he really wants is a chance to wail on his saxophone and impress Fats Waller, Harlem's own piano-playing musical giant. Fats offers Mark another opportunity first: a simple little delivery job for some fast cash. Too bad the delivery goes awry. Too bad the cold-blooded gangster Dutch Schultz was in on the deal and wants his money from Mark...or else! Walter Dean Myer's beautifully written novel is a poignant, often hilarious coming-of-age story of one boy navigating his way through Harlem's happening streets and into his own manhood. Mark Purvis works downtown at The Crisis publishing office, but all he really wants is a chance to wail on his saxophone and impress Fats Waller, Harlem's own piano-playing musical giant. Fats offers Mark another opportunity first: a simple little delivery job for some fast cash. Too bad the delivery goes awry. Too bad the cold-blooded gangster Dutch Schultz was in on the deal and wants his money from Mark...or else! Walter Dean Myer's beautifully written novel is a poignant, often hilarious coming-of-age story of one boy navigating his way through Harlem's happening streets and into his own manhood. Product Details Item #: NTS534235 ISBN13: 9780545342353 Format: Paperback Book Pages: 176 Genre: Historical Fiction, Comedy and Humor Grades: 7 - 10 Lexile® Measure: 860L Guided Reading Level: GR Level X DRA Level: 60 ... ACR Level: 5.1 Show Less Show More Key Features Item #: NTS534235 ISBN13: 9780545342353 Format: Paperback Book Pages: 176 Genre: Historical Fiction, Comedy and Humor Grades: 7 - 10 Lexile® Measure: 860L Guided Reading Level: GR Level X DRA Level: 60 ... ACR Level: 5.1, ISBN13: 9780545342353 ISBN10: 054534235X Material Type: paperback

Walter Dean Myers