Checkmate

Title
Checkmate

Personal Author EPSB
Walter Dean, Myers

Summary
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.

Year Published
2011

Series
The Cruisers ;

Volume
[bk. 2]

Physical Description
133 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject
Newspapers -- Fiction.
 
Middle schools -- Fiction.
 
Schools -- Fiction.
 
Chess -- Fiction.
 
Gifted children -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

Summary
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.

ISBN
9780439916325

Publisher
New York : Scholastic, 2011.


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A. Blair McPhersonREA MYEBook31458000070006Realistic Fiction