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