by
Walter Dean Myers
Bibliography
Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. Harper Collins. 2001. ISBN. 978-0-064-40731-4
Summary
Written in a screen play format of his life, sixteen year old Steve Harmon is accused as a accessor to a murder of a store owner. Steve explains to his audience his life and his expereince in prison. The attorney that is representing Steve. Kathy O' Brien has doubts about Steve and his guilt. Steve's life is flashed before his very eyes and he pleads for himself not to spend the rest of his life in prison. We get to see the perception in the court room, the jury, Steve's parent's, prison, and Mr. Nesbitt the store owner who was shot.
For the Young at Heart
This is a very compelling and revieting story. I could not put this book down. I wanted to know what was going to happen to Steve Harmon. It did take me some time to get use to the screen play format. Overall this book was an excellent read.
Reviews
Steve Harmon, 16, is accused of serving as lookout for a robbery of a Harlem drugstore. the owner was shot and killed, and now Steve is in prison awaiting trail for murder.
School Library Journal, July 1999
Arrested and charged with murder, sixteen-year-old-Steve harmon is writing a screenplay of his ordeal. Interspersed with his handwritten journal entries, Steve's script makes up a novel that in both form and subject guarantees a wide audience.
Horn Book Magazines Review, March 1999
Suggested Actvities
This would be a great book for a boys book club to book talk and each boy take a part in the Steve Harmon's screen play.
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