Chapter Summary: Bad Boy By Walter Dean Myers
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In the book, Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers talks about his family in chapter 1 called Roots. On page 3, the author said, ‘Shortly after birth of my sister Imogene, my mother died…’ That tells you that he says that he doesn’t have a memory of his mother, Mary Dolly Green. Walter has 3 sisters, Imogene, Ethel, and Gertrude including his stepsisters Geraldine and Viola from his adopted mother Florence Dean. On page 3, the author said, ‘When I think of ‘mother’ I think of another woman, my father’s first wife, Florence Dean.’ Walter has an adoptive father named Herbert Dean that was married to Florence Dean. On chapter 2, Walter calls Harlem his first place called ‘home’. What he liked about Harlem, NY was the music that ‘spilled the