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Motown and Didi (Polk Street Special) | 
 enlarge | Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Category: Book
Buy Used: $7.48
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1025608
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0440957621
EAN: 9780440957621
ASIN: 0440957621
Publication Date: October 1, 1987
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Motown lives in a burned-out building one floor above the rats, searching out jobs every day, working his muscles every night, keeping strong, surviving. Didi lives in her cool dream bubble, untouched by the Harlem heat that beats down on her brother until only drugs can soothe him. Didi escapes, without needles, in her tidy plans and stainless visions, etchings of ivycovered colleges where her true life will begin. Didi can survive inside her own safe mind, until Motown steps into her real world and makes it bearable. Together they can stand the often brutal present. What about the future?
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Motown and DiDi February 1, 2001
sherita (Chesterfield,Virginia)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Motown and Didi written by Walter Dean Myers is an excellent novel on how to keep families together,while keeping cool inspite of all the tragic realities in life.This book is recommended for teens and young adults of ethnic background, but it contains universal themes. I recommend this book to those in search of a great story. Motown and DiDi are two black teenagers who live Harlem,New York who have big dreams for their lives. Neither realized that the streets would enable them to furfill their dreams. The unversal concepts in this book include the seperation of families due to drug use and how they will affect your family life. The other concept mentioned in this book is the search for true love. I rarely take the time to read books, but this I couldn't put this one down. It was a fast read that reminded me of a soap opera. Turning each page, I was more enthused on how the characters would react to the situation they were facing.The only problem with the book was the changing of scenes in one paragraph. Besides that I really enjoyed this book and encourage all to read.
Motown & Didi April 30, 2000
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
this amazing piece of litaraure writen by Walter Dean Myers is an extrodinary view of the dicrimination involved in city life, and will be a good read for anyone who wishes to learn life skills involving city living, the perspective of discriminated African Americans or is interested in a truely facinating love story.
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