Checkmate

By Walter Dean Myers

Subjects: Newspapers, fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Middle schools, Gifted children, fiction, Chess, fiction, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Gifted children, Children's fiction, Student newspapers and periodicals, Newspapers, Juvenile fiction, Chess, Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction, Schools

Description: Four middle-schoolers who publish an alternative newspaper at their Harlem academy for gifted students investigate why a classmate--one of the best chess players in New York City--was caught trying to buy drugs.