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Street Love | 
 enlarge | Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Amistad
Category: Book
List Price: $8.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 78382
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0064407322
EAN: 9780064407328
ASIN: 0064407322
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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Product Description
Your first love is totally wrong for you.
Do you follow your heart?
Or do you run away? Junice What am I doing? He'll take one quick look
And wish he was anywhere else but here
I'm already ashamed of what I think
He will think of me, of the life I lead Damien Yes, she is the fruit that will
Sustain me and yes, she brings
A rain that I know can chill
But it is a rain so sweet and sings
A song my soul insists
That I follow, if I would exist
As more than I have ever, ever been
If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 From a school librarian's point of view... June 28, 2008
Disney Teach (Tampa Bay, Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Street Love is an outstanding book for any student to read. Though this book is based on the inner city life and love, I feel any child would benefit from reading this book. Actually, if I were an English teacher, I would have students read and study this book after reading Shakespeare. Students would have an easier time breaking down the poetry and symbols in this book over Shakespeare and really enjoy it more. It could almost be seen as a reward reading for doing Shakespeare. I think we have finally found Shakespeare from an African American/Urban/Hip Hop point of view. Below, are the focus groups I would recommend to read this book:
- Any student(Though this book may focus on African American life, this book was written for everyone to explore the inner-city African American culture.)
-Inner-city teens
-Students reading/studying Shakespeare
-Basketball playing teens
-Teens who parents and/or family members have recently been locked up in jail or prison.
-Teens in a foster home situation
-Teens who like/love poetry
-Home-schooled students
-Anybody!(An adult, just like me.)
All You Need To Know April 21, 2008
Thomas Spindler (Lubbock, TX)
This book is intended for audiences 8th grade and above. The story centers on the love brewing between Junice and Damien as they deal with the harsh realities of the street in Harlem, NY. Damian is a excellent student who has been accepted to Brown University. Junice's mother is incarcerated and Junice has to adapt to several life changes. This story is written in poetry form and uses up-to-date, modern, street language. Moral of the story is that true love conquers all, whether the cost. This is a nice heart warming read with a touch of sadness. Readers will feel and remember what it was like to be a high school kid in love.
 Street Love March 3, 2008
J. Harrell
Walter Dean Myers never seems to let me down.
Thanks for the prompt attention I recived
when item was being shipped.
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers February 15, 2007
D. Thiel (Idaho)
Myers is an excellent writer for young adults, as well as adults. Here he weaves a meaningful and realistic tale of love from both sides of the track, through poetry. I have loved everything I have read by Walter Dean Myers, and I hope he keeps the books coming!
Inconsistent but Powerful Love Story February 15, 2007
Wantz Upon A Time Reviews (Chicago)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
STREET LOVE is a love story, and a good one. Damien and Junice don't seem right for each other, but love doesn't exactly follow the rules--the two fall head over heels in love despite their differences. And they stay that way, even though there are obstacles in the way of this urban love story.
STREET LOVE is a verse novel--a tricky format to get right. Walter Dean Myers manages it sometimes, but it didn't always feel like it flowed as well as it should have. Reading this book, I felt like it had a lot of potential, but only met it part of the time. Still, the writing was good. It's a very poetic novel--not just prose broken up into shorter lines, the way a lot of verse novels seem to be. The poetry is good, but, perhaps, not always the right way to tell the story. It could have been better, but it could have been worse. It also could have been too predictable, as love stories often are. At least that was avoided. The characters are brilliant; all of them seem three-dimensional.
This is a powerfully honest story about first love, one well worth reading despite its inconsistencies.
Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce
02/15/2007
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