"Scorpions" by Walter Dean Myers is a Newbery Honor book.
Jamal is 12. He lives in Harlem. He's being hassled by the principle at school. His mother is working all the time. His brother Randy just went to jail for murder. And now Jamal has been given the task of "running" the Scorpions, his brother's gang. As Jamal and his best friend Tito soon find out, all the good intentions in the world don't help when things go badly awry.
This classic novel portrays life on the street as it really is, for real boys growing into young men. It doesn't pull punches; it tells an exciting, honest story about how two boys "take what the street put down".
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