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BAD BOY SUMMARY In an inspirational 8th grade book by Walter Dean Myers called Bad Boy, This block buster story about a young boy whom had a mom that died after giving birth to his young sister Imogene, Since Walter doesn’t have any memory of his mom, when he thinks of mom the first person to pop in his head is dads first wife Florence dean. To begin my second paragraph referring to chapter two, Walter stated in page 7, the first place he calls home is Harlem, New York According to the textual evidence he feels as if Harlem is a magical place. He likes it so much because the city is alive because the music feels the busy streets. During Walters’s childhood in Harlem his stepmom Florence wasn’t working outside the house so he spent

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