Book
Scorpions
by Walter Dean Myers
- Published
- 1988
- Genre
- Fiction
- Words
- 44653
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 3.7
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Lexile
- 610L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 11–14
Twelve-year-old Jamal is pressured to take over his imprisoned brother's Harlem gang, drawing him and his best friend Tito into escalating danger as loyalty, poverty, violence, and a gun narrow their choices.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780064470667
Tags
Award Winners-Margaret A. Edwards AwardAward Winners-Newbery HonorCommunity Life-NeighborhoodPeople-Black PeoplePuerto RicoSocial Issues-Violence