The Young Landlords

by Walter Dean Myers (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldn't beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, who'd died for the third time in a month - and not a rent-payer in the bunch. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made. But when their friend Chris was arrested for stealing stereos and Dean's dog started biting fire hydrants and Gloria started kissing, being a landlord turned out to be a lot more work that being a kid.
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Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780140342444
Lexile Measure
820
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication date
October 19, 1989
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
Library of Congress categories
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Landlord and tenant
Coretta Scott King Award
Winner 1980 - 1980

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