# Walter Dean Myers — books assigned in US schools

**6** books by Walter Dean Myers appear in the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from state ELA standards, AP/IB syllabi, and Common Core exemplar lists.

**Lexile range:** 670L–670L
**Grade span:** 4–11
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/author/walter-dean-myers
**Wikipedia (entity):** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dean_Myers
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Recurring themes

- criminal justice
- identity and reputation
- incarceration
- narrative reliability
- race and adolescence

## Genres

- Juvenile Fiction (2)
- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Young Adult Fiction

## Every Walter Dean Myers title on file

- [The Young Landlords](https://readinglist.school/book/the-young-landlords) _(Grades 4–8 · 1979)_
- [Motown and Didi](https://readinglist.school/book/motown-and-didi) _(Grades 4–8 · 1984)_
- [Fallen Angels](https://readinglist.school/book/fallen-angels) _(Grades 4–8 · 1988)_
- [Now Is Your Time](https://readinglist.school/book/now-is-your-time) _(Grades 4–8 · 1991)_
- [Slam](https://readinglist.school/book/slam) _(Grades 4–8 · 1996)_
- [Monster](https://readinglist.school/book/monster) _(670L · Grades 8–11 · 1999)_

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