The Young Landlords

By Walter Dean Myers

Book Overview

If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldn't beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, who'd died for the third time in a month--and not a rent payer in the bunch. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made. But when their friend Chris was arrested for stealing stereos and Dean's dog started biting fire hydrants and Gloria started kissing, being a landlord turned out to be a lot more work than being a kid.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140342443
• ISBN13: 9780140342444
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

great for young adults!

I'm a sixth grade teacher and my students, especially the boys, love Walter Dean Myers!

Best Book I've Ever Read by Meyers

The recently started "Action Group" is a group composed of 6 teenagers. They have many things to do, on the top of the list, save the world. The enthusiastic group buys a building for $1 and they didn't know what they were getting themselves into. Six tennants, which none of pay rent, leaky toilets, and more was what they got into. Just when they think that they had it bad, they find out that one of the Action Grouppies, Chris gets sent to jail because he supposedly stole some stero equiptment. Read about the 5 remaining members who fix up the building and try to make everything better, they even try to prove Chris innocent.