Checkmate
By: Walter Dean Myers
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Cruisers -- [bk. 2]
Publisher: Scholastic; Scholastic Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780439916271; 9780439916325
Subjects: Chess; Middle schools; Schools; Gifted children; Newspapers; African Americans; Fiction
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.