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