Walter Dean Myers

About Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers wrote many books for young readers. His stories often focused on teens and their experiences. He had a talent for creating characters that felt real and relatable.

The best place to start is the Arrow Adventures series, the earliest of Walter Dean Myers's multi-book series: it opens with Adventure in Granada (1985) and runs to 4 books across 1985–1986, ending with Duel in the Desert (1986). Walter Dean Myers's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Walter Dean Myers has 152 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1972 and 2019. 42 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the My Name Is America series with 19 books — and 110 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Walter Dean Myers's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Arrow Adventures (1985–1986, 4 books), 18 Pine St. (1992–1994, 12 books) and My Name Is America (1998–2013, 19 books), plus 3 more.

This guide splits Walter Dean Myers's 152 books into 6 named series and 110 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: My Name Is America (19 books, 1998–2013); 18 Pine St. (12 books, 1992–1994); Arrow Adventures (4 books, 1985–1986); Cruisers (4 books, 2010–2013); Monster (2 books, 1999–2013), plus 1 further series.