Scorpions

By Walter Dean Myers

Subjects: Gangs, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile:610, grade:min:8, Gangs in fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, age:min:13, lexile_range:601-700, Gangs, African Americans in fiction, grade:max:9, Fiction, Children's fiction, Newbery Honor, Juvenile fiction, Afronorteamericanos, Adolescence, fiction, age:max:15, Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction, Ficción, Pandillas

Description: After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.