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Scorpions
Walter Dean Myers

Scorpions

Harper Keypoint (Apr 25, 1990)
9780064470667
| Mass Market Paperback
216 pages | 106 x 178 mm | English
Dewey [Fic]
LC Classification PZ7.M992 Sc 1988
LC Control No. 85045815

Genre

  • General Fiction
  • Kids (12 & Under)
  • Kids: Middle Grade

Subject

  • Afro-Americans
  • Afro-Americans/ Fiction
  • Gangs
  • Gangs/ Fiction
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Plot

Bad Trouble Lately everybody's messing with Jamal. His teachers, the kids at school, even his dad. And now that Jamal's brother Randy's in the slam, Crazy Mack has a crazy idea. He wants Jamal to take control of the Scorpions and run crack. All the gang jive--Jamal has no use for it. Unless, like some say, it's the only way to cop the bread for Randy's appeal... The story of twelve-year-old Jamal, whose life changes drastically when he acquires a gun. Though he survives the experience, it's not without sacrificing his innocence and possibly his relationship with his best friend.