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ZIN Product Number: 10004792
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 224 pages
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 0060243651
Release Date: Jan 4, 1992
Age Range: 12
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Life in Harlem is difficult for 12-year-old Jamal: he has problems with teachers and peers, his often absent father makes him feel inadequate and his older brother Randy is in jail. Randy wants Jamal to take over the Scorpions, his lucrative crack running gang, but Jamal feels that he is too young andtoo inexperienced to lead the older gang members. Then Mack, Randy's warlord, passes a gun to Jamal. Jamal knows that keeping the gun is wrong, but it gives him such a feeling of power and security that he can't bring himself to give it up. . . . Grades six to nine." (Voice Youth Advocates)
| | | | From The Publisher
Bad Trouble
Lately 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.
| | | | Annotation
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.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
i really loved this book!!!!
-- A reviewer, a sports lover, March 20, 2002
Also Recommended: slam/hoops/the outside shot/the glory field/
Realistically Good
-- Beth, April 16, 2002
GOOD book
-- Jessica, a student at CHS, April 8, 2002
Book changed my life
-- Kyle R., May 28, 2002
A Childhood Memory 
-- Maria, July 15, 2002
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| | | | | | Keywords
Fiction, Afro-Americans, Gangs, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Gangs, Fiction, Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Afro-Americans, Juvenile delinquency, Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General, Juvenile Fiction, Social Situations - General, Ethnic - African American, Social Situations - Violence
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