Title: Scorpions
Description: Bad TroubleLately everybody's messing with Jamal. His teachers, the kids at school, even his dad. And now that Jamal's brother Randy's in the slam, Crazy Mack has a crazy idea. He wants Jamal to take control of the Scorpions and run crack.All the gang jive--Jamal has no use for it. Unless, like some say, it's the only way to cop the bread for Randy's appeal...The story of twelve-year-old Jamal, whose life changes drastically when he acquires a gun.  Though he survives the experience, it's not without sacrificing his innocence and possibly his relationship with his best friend.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile fiction, African Americans, Gangs, Children's fiction, Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction, Gangs, fiction, Adolescence, fiction, African americans, fiction