Darius & Twig

by Walter Dean Myers

About the Author

  WALTER DEAN MYERS is the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award, the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers has received every single major award in the field of children’s literature. He is the author of two Newbery Honor Books and five Coretta Scott King Award-winning titles. He is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and is a three-time National Book Award Finalist as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was the 2010 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and is considered one of the preeminent writers for young people. You can visit him online at www.walterdeanmyers.net and www.who-is-america.com. Walter lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family.

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  Cover art © 2013 by Jennifer Heuer

  Cover design by Ray W. Shappell

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  DARIUS & TWIG. Copyright © 2013 by Walter Dean Myers.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937–

  Darius & Twig / Walter Dean Myers. — First edition.

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  Summary: “Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem”— Provided by publisher.

  ISBN 978-0-06-172823-5 (hardcover bdgs)

  ISBN 978-0-06-172824-2 (lb bdgs)

  EPub Edition March 2013 ISBN 9780062209252

  [1. Best friends—Fiction. 2. Friendship—Fiction. 3. Authorship—Fiction. 4. Running—Fiction. 5. African Americans—Fiction. 6. Dominican Americans—Fiction. 7. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 8. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Darius and Twig.

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