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  • Author: Walter Dean Myers
  • List: John Newbery Medal
  • Format: Book
  • Scorpions

    Scorpions

    By Walter Dean Myers

    Hoping to find a way to raise money for an appeal for his imprisoned older brother, twelve-year-old Jamal agrees to try to become the leader of his brother's Harlem gang, the Scorpions. Involvement with the gang (and the gun he is given) leads to tragedy for Jamal and his friend Tito.
  • Somewhere in the Darkness

    Somewhere in the Darkness

    By Walter Dean Myers

    Jimmy Little had always wanted a father. However, when Crab, his father, who is virtually a stranger, appears in a dark hallway straight from a prison hospital, it is not at all what he had hoped for. On the tense, frightening trip with Crab to Chicago and then to Alabama, Jimmy finds he must learn self-knowledge as well as compassion to deal with a difficult and dangerous situation.