Scorpions Audiobook (Free)

The Scorpions certainly are a gun-toting Harlem gang, and Jamal Hicks is about to become tragically associated with them within this authentic tale from the sacrifice of innocence as well as the struggle to steer clear of violence.

This Newbery Honor Book will challenge teenagers to consider their own decisions because they come old within a complex and frequently frustrating society.

Pushed with a bully to combat and nagged by his principal, Jamal is having a difficult time staying in school. His home lifestyle is not far better, with about Scorpions his mom working her fingers to the bone to try to earn the amount of money for an appeal for Jamal’s jailed old brother, Randy.

Jamal wants to do the proper thing and help earn the money to free of charge his sibling by working, but he’s afraid to not in favor of the Scorpions. Jamal eventually pulls free of the gang’s bad influence, but only through the narrowest of escapes.

Walter Dean Myers, five-time champion of the Coretta Scott King Prize, sensitively explores the loyalty and love between friends faced with hard choices. Scorpions is 25 years older, but the problems of poverty and violence make it a classic effective read-sadly as relevant as ever.