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Scorpions: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Mass market paperback - 2013
by Myers, Walter Dean
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
In this tragic and utterly authentic 1989 Newbery Honor Book about two friends in contemporary Harlem, "Myers has captured the street milieu well, and the characters and the events ring all too true. . . . A dishearteningly effective tale of poverty and inverted values."--"Booklist." ALA Notable Children's Book.
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- Title Scorpions: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
- Author Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Amistad Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2013-05-28
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0064470660-3-28424058
- ISBN 9780064470667 / 0064470660
- Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 6.99 x 4.17 x 0.52 in (17.75 x 10.59 x 1.32 cm)
- Ages 13 to UP years
- Grade levels 8 - UP
- Reading level 610
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85045814
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.
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Citations
- Booklist, 10/01/1993, Page 335