Handbook for Boys: A Novel Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories / Social Themes - Friendship / Fairy Tales & Folklore practicing alchemy is a crime

practicing alchemy is a crime

and what it means to be a young Black man in America in the present

we can do and be anything

and conduct science experiments in their apartment ("The volcano erupts /Red lava on Valentine’s Day

Handbook for Boys: A Novel Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories / Social Themes - Friendship / Fairy Tales & Folklore practicing alchemy is a crimeIn the groundbreaking tradition of his award winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a highly readable, powerful novel about the rules for success for young men, especially those navigating coming of age while Black. Jimmy and Kevin could use a guide to life. When each of the boys gets in the kind of trouble that almost lands them in juvenile detention, their neighbor Duke steps in and offers them jobs in his Harlem