![]() The story is told in a refreshing way, alternating between Steve's portrayal of the action as a film script (his way of dealing with the horror of it all is to distance himself by imagining he is behind the camera) and diary excerpts. And now he's on trial because he let those people make some choices for him. On the mean streets of Harlem, he looked up to them and wanted to be like them. And why is he, an aspiring film maker and good student, there? He's there because, in part, he wanted to be as "cool" and "bad" as the other defendants in the trial. Steve Harmon, a sixteen year-old, is on trial for felony murder. ![]() It's a story of how the little things in life, the ones we don't even notice, can lead you down the path of despair before you even know it. ![]() ![]() Monster is a terrifying book by Walter Dean Myers and it was nominated for the 1999 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
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