Dreams

 Man.  Walter Dean Myers he is something else. The Dream Bearer is a great book for dudes and for all.  Set in Harlem, as are many of Myers's books, this tells the story of Danny who is twelve years old and growing up with a father who has mental health issues (maybe) and a brother who is experimenting with selling drugs and a man he and his best friend meet in the park who claims to be over 300 years old and a "bearer of dreams."

There is so much going on in this book and so much to talk about:  gentrification, racism, becoming a US citizen, drugs, father-son stuff, becoming a man stuff.  It is all so well done and causes the reader to really think, see things in a different light and question the status quo.  Man I enjoyed this book.  It just made me FEEL smarter after having read it!