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    The Get Over
    The Get Over
    The Get Over
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    The Get Over

    By Walter Dean Myers

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    From beloved author Walter Dean Myers, this original 20-page short story serves as a prequel to his award-winning novel Monster, which has been read and loved by millions of readers.

    Word on the street is that a robbery is about to go down in Harlem, and Steve Harmon is right in the middle of it. Everyone is trying to prove who's the toughest. Steve gets caught up in the talk and wonders about the difference between right and wrong. Should he turn these guys in? Stay quiet? What choice will Steve make?

    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 dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9780062269096
    The Get Over
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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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      The Get Over - Walter Dean Myers

      Contents

      The Get Over

      Excerpt from Monster

      Excerpt from Darius & Twig

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Back Ads

      About the Author

      Books by Walter Dean Myers

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      The Get Over

      So it’s me, Bobo, Slice, and Little Willie sitting on the stoop talking. Mostly it’s Bobo, Slice, and Little Willie doing the talking and me just listening. The talk was stupid, about what girls they would mess with and what they would make them do if the girls were stupid enough to fall in love with them.

      If a girl falls in love with you, it means she’s weak, Bobo, who was the oldest guy on the stoop, said. If she’s strong, she ain’t going to fall in love with nobody unless they rich. That’s why all those girls chasing football players and rap stars. You got the paper, you got the girl.

      If I make it big-time, I’m just going to buy what I need straight out, Little Willie said. Some girl run up on me talking about some love and I’m going to slap her upside her head, slap on her ass, and then pull out my checkbook and tell her exactly what I want and what I’m willing to pay for it.

      Love doesn’t sound that bad to me, I said.

      That’s ’cause you’re a punk to begin with, Bobo said. Ain’t that right, Slice?

      Yeah.

      Steve Harmon, well-known punk with a camera, believes in love. Bobo was on a roll. What a girl need you for except a damned payday?

      Especially Steve, Little Willie said. Look at the way your ears stick out, man. You get caught in a strong wind and she ain’t going to see you no more.

      And what you doing outside your house, anyway? Bobo asked. You got diaper rash or something, and you out here trying to cool it off?

      Steve needs to sell that fancy camera he got and invest the money in strawberry blunts. Little Willie turned his hat to the side of his head. "That way he could be a banker. Did you know those guys down on Wall Street sniff their money when they take a

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