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    By Walter Dean Myers

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    From Walter Dean Myers, the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, comes this 20-page one-act play. Tags is a look at life and death in New York City, complete with a shocking end.

    Four New York City teens are shot down in the prime of life. They move through limbo, re-creating their distinctive tags in a Harlem walk-up so that they can "live" forever. But what's the point? How can you think of living forever if you're already dead?

    Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperTeen
    Release dateMar 5, 2013
    ISBN9780062269089
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    Walter Dean Myers

    Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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      Book preview

      Tags - Walter Dean Myers

      Contents

      Players

      Excerpt from Darius & Twig

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Back Ads

      About the Author

      Books by Walter Dean Myers

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      PLAYERS

      Big Eddie Jones, 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . smoke

      Willie Jimenez, 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-soon/121

      D’Mario Thompson, 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .datruf

      Frank Watkins, 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .J-Boy

      We are in the present time. The play opens on a dingy urban hallway in some dingy urban city. There is a door at stage right. To the left of the hallway, next to stairs that go up at a steep angle, we see BIG EDDIE, a young African American male, writing his tag on the wall. From somewhere a radio is playing, and we hear an ANNOUNCER talking about the wonders of the oldies.

      The light flickers occasionally, giving the set an eerie feeling. The radio gets randomly louder, then softer. BIG EDDIE works hard at his tag, which is the letters spelling out smoke sitting on a bed of flames. Throughout the play, the teenagers work on their tags.

      The door at stage right opens and WILLIE appears. He looks around and is momentarily startled by BIG EDDIE.

      WILLIE

      Yo, what’s happening?

      BIG EDDIE

      Same old same old. Ain’t nobody much in this building.

      WILLIE

      Do it count?

      BIG EDDIE

      Yeah, we still tagging, man. We still tagging. You got more paint?

      WILLIE

      Enough. (He starts putting his tag on the wall. His tag reads 2-soon/121.)

      BIG

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