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Juba!

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by Walter Dean Myers


  Mr. Briggs, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. Everton, and Mr. Valentine—the rest of the Serenaders

  Sarah Felton—Juba’s wife, named in the census of 1851, but her maiden name not given.

  Walter added the rest of the cast of characters, surrounding Juba with friends and associates. Stubby, Freddy, Jack Bishop, and Margaret Moran were Juba’s principal supporters. Although they were fictional, Walter had photographs of these characters chosen from his photograph collection, which he posted on the wall in front of his computer. They lived in his mind as much as any real character did as he wrote the story of William Henry Lane, known as Master Juba.

  —Constance Myers

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  Five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner WALTER DEAN MYERS was the acclaimed author of a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction for young people. His nonfiction includes We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart; Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom; I’ve Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly; and Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam, a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award winner. His illustrious list of young adult novels includes Darius & Twig; All the Right Stuff; Lockdown; Dope Sick; Autobiography of My Dead Brother; New York Times bestseller Monster, the first winner of the Michael L. Printz Award; and many more. He was a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Learn more about him online at www.walterdeanmyers.net and www.who-is-america.com.

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  Just Write: Here’s How!

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  A Tribute from the Heart

  ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTOPHER MYERS

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  COAUTHORED BY ROSS WORKMAN

  Looking for the Easy Life

  ILLUSTRATED BY LEE HARPER

  Lockdown

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  Let the Truth Be Told

  ILLUSTRATED BY BONNIE CHRISTENSEN

  The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage

  Street Love

  Autobiography of My Dead Brother

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  Now Is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom

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  Tales of a Dead King

  CREDITS

  Cover art © 2015 by Andy Bridge

  Cover design by Erin Fitzsimmons

  COPYRIGHT

  Photo credits:

  Pages here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here:

  Courtesy of the Walter Dean Myers Archives

  Page here: Courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection,

  Houghton Library, Harvard University

  Pages here and here: Courtesy of Library of Congress

  Page here: Courtesy of British Newspaper Archive

  Page here: Courtesy of General Register Office

  Page here: Courtesy of Register of St. Martin’s

  in the Fields Free Parochial Cemetery in Liverpool

  Amistad is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

  JUBA! Copyright © 2015 by Walter Dean Myers and the Estate of Walter Myers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Myers, Walter Dean, 1937–2014.

  Juba! / Walter Dean Myers.

  pages cm

  Summary: A young African American man tries to make it as a dancer in New York’s Five Points district and in England in the 1800s.

  ISBN 978-0-06-211271-2 (hardback)

  EPub Edition © September 2015 ISBN 9780062112743

  1. Lane, William Henry, approximately 1825–1852—Juvenile fiction. [1. Lane, William Henry, approximately 1825–1852—Fiction. 2. Dancers—Fiction. 3. African Americans—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 4. Prejudices—Fiction. 5. Five Points (New York, N.Y.)—History—19th century—Fiction. 6. London (England)—History—19th century—Fiction. 7. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.M992Jub 2015 2014042527

  [Fic]—dc23 CIP

  AC

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