Walter Dean Myers, two-time Newbery Honor winner and five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, reads an excerpt from his novel Dope Sick; a powerful story of drugs, violence — and second chances.
The book also inspired the Second Chance Initiative — an effort to motivate teens to overcome life’s challenge, move beyond mistakes of the past, take advantage of the second chances they are given, and make better choices in the future.
Listen to Myers read an excerpt from Dope Sick and discover what inspired it.
