Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff

1975 novel by Walter Dean Myers

LanguageEnglish

Published1975 (Viking Press)

Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff
First edition
Authors	Walter Dean Myers
Language	English
Genre	Young adult fiction,
Published	1975 (Viking Press)
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback, paperback)
Pages	190
ISBN	0-670-30874-9
OCLC	1173781

Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff is a 1975 novel by Walter Dean Myers. It is about a boy, Stuff, moving to 116th Street Harlem, making friends with the neighborhood kids and the adventures they have.

Kirkus Reviews in its review of Fast Sam wrote "Stuff can be a little long-winded in Holden Caulfield-like digressions, and his friends awfully earnest in their discussions of sex and drugs, but in general his colloquial first-person narrative projects a sense of enviable group rapport with an easy mix of nostalgia and humor."^[1] and the New York Public Library called it "a fun, relaxing read."^[2]

Fast Sam has also been reviewed by Common Sense Media,^[3] and the School Library Journal.^[4]

The Washington Post included Fast Sam in its list of recommended books celebrating the black experience.^[5] It also received a 1976 Coretta Scott King Award author honor.^[6]

References

Children and Young Adult Literature portal

↑ "Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff". Kirkus Media LLC. April 1, 1975. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
↑ Miranda McDermott (September 24, 2012). "For Teachers: Booktalking "Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff" by Walter Dean Myers". nypl.org. The New York Public Library. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
↑ Monica Wyatt. "Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff". commonsensemedia.org. Common Sense Media Inc. Retrieved April 7, 2017. The episodic story progresses until readers have a bright portrait of these kids who grow up in a tough neighborhood, but who remain kids.
↑ John F. Caviston; Lillian N. Gerhardt (March 1975). "Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff (Book Review)". School Library Journal. 21 (7). Media Sources Inc.: 108. Retrieved April 7, 2017.^{[dead link]}
↑ Hearn, Sharon Bell Mathis (May 10, 1987). "Celebrating The Black Experience". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 7, 2017. Warm and humorous glimpses of a group of teenagers in Harlem as they experience the usual adolescent ups and downs and turnarounds.
↑ "Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present". ala.org. American Library Association. April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

v t e Works by Walter Dean Myers
Novels	Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff (1975) Motown and Didi (1984) Crystal (1987) Scorpions (1988) Fallen Angels (1988) Somewhere in the Darkness (1992) Monster (1999)
Picture books	Jazz (2006) Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History (2017)
Film adaptations	Legend of the Lost Tomb (1997) Case 219 (2010) Monster (2018)
Related	Walter Dean Myers Award

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