Harlem Summer /
by Walter Dean Myers
- New York : Scholastic ; 2007 .
- 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm .
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In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.
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