Handbook for Boys

Jimmy and Kevin could really use a guide to life. Jimmy's fighting and Kevin's drug problem almost land them in a juvenile detention facility until Duke offers them after-school jobs at his Harlem barbershop. According to Duke, there are rules for everything: how to stay out of trouble, how to succeed in life, what it takes to make it. But is it good advice or just more aggravation?

In the groundbreaking tradition of his award-winnng Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a complex layered novel about the rules for success. Handbook for Boys is the book that Mr. Myers wishes he could have read while growing up. It is the book young people need to read today.