Bad Boy!

I am Reading a book called Bad Boy, by Walter Dean Myers. I choose this book because I read the back summary and it looks like an interesting story to me. The back talks about how this boy has a quick-tempered and he is physically strong, and this boy is always ready for a fight. Well he likes to read and he always goes to the library and checks out books. He would always bring books to his house, and will hind them in a brown bag because he wanted to avoid the other boys from teasing him. This boy wanted to be a writer, but growing up in a poor family didn't helped him. His hope for a successful future diminished as he realize the class and racial struggles that surrounded him. He didn't believe in himself and his values that he had always relied on, going to school less and less, turning to streets and his books for comfort.

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I really don't like reading books, that's not my thing but when its something interesting I read it. The first chapter is called HARLEM. Harlem is the place they lived at. In the beginning he talks about home which is Harlem. How it was a magical place that was alive with music that went all over the busy streets from the windows. Music was what he most loved about Harlem. There would be radios everywhere. His earliest memory was about this woman picking him up Sunday morning for Sunday school. He said she would always have like five to ten children with her. They would go down the streets holding hands and singing  "Jesus Loves Me". He attend to a Baptist church called Abyssinian Baptist. He would go back home the same way, holding hands and singing. He then talks about his mama working. She calls it "days work", which meant she cleaned other peoples apartments and was paid by the day. He has two sisters Gerry and Viola. They were the only girls who danced with him when they did dance. The other girls in the street wouldn't dance with him. He taught himself this dance up called "the boogie". His dance was amusing to people. Amusing enough that he would have pennies being thrown at. When he had enough pennies he would run to the stores and buy his favorite icy pops.

This book really didn't start out how I imagined. But it's good so far. I guess! But I really think its going to be a great book.