The Glory Field

Walter Dean Myers

Scholastic Inc., 1996 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 375 pages

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.
"Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human."
This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the shackles that held some of its members captive -- even today. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle, and love. And of the piece of the land that holds them together throughout it all.

Contents

• MARCH 1864 LIVE OAKS PLANTATION CURRY ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA: 9
• APRIL 1900 CURRY ISLAND SOUTH CAROLINA: 71
• MAY 1930 CHICAGO ILLINOIS: 139
• JANUARY 1964 JOHNSON CITY SOUTH CAROLINA: 209
• AUGUST 1994 HARLEM NEW YORK: 291
• EPILOGUE: 369

About the author

Walter Dean Myers was born on August 12, 1937 in Martinsberg, West Virginia. When he was three years old, his mother died and his father sent him to live with Herbert and Florence Dean in Harlem, New York. He began writing stories while in his teens. He dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Army at the age of 17. After completing his army service, he took a construction job and continued to write. He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness, at the age of 76.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Glory Field
• Author: Walter Dean Myers
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 1996
• ISBN: 0590458981, 9780590458986
• Length: 375 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / General; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / General; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black