Scorpions

Scorpions
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061975060

The Scorpions are a gun-toting Harlem gang, and Jamal Hicks is about to become tragically involved with them in this authentic tale of the sacrifice of innocence and the struggle to steer clear of violence. This Newbery Honor Book will challenge young men to consider their own decisions as they come of age in a complex and often frustrating society. Pushed by a bully to fight and nagged by his principal, Jamal is having a difficult time staying in school. His home life is not much better, with his mother working her fingers to the bone to try to earn the money for an appeal for Jamal's jailed older brother, Randy. Jamal wants to do the right thing and help earn the money to free his brother by working, but he's afraid to go against the Scorpions. Jamal eventually pulls free of the gang's bad influence, but only through the narrowest of escapes. Walter Dean Myers, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, sensitively explores the loyalty and love between friends faced with hard choices. Scorpions is 25 years old, but the issues of poverty and violence make it a timeless powerful read—sadly as relevant as ever.

Scorpions!

Scorpions!
Author: Laurence Pringle
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1590784731

We have been taught to fear scorpions in any form. But scorpions usually sting either to subdue their prey or to protect themselves. In fact, Earth has two thousand scorpion species, but only a few dozen are deadly to humans. With vivid descriptions of scorpions' life cycle, body structure, habits, and habitat and beautiful, realistic illustrations, this new entry in the popular Strange and Wonderful series explores one of nature's feared and misunderstood creatures.

Scorpions of the World

Scorpions of the World
Author: Roland Stockmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2010
Genre: Scorpions
ISBN: 9782913688117

The House of the Scorpion

The House of the Scorpion
Author: Nancy Farmer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1471120384

Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium

Scorpions

Scorpions
Author: Steven Otfinoski
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761448780

Explores the anatomy, skills, habitats, diets, and hunting strategies of the world's amazing animals.

Scorpions' Dance

Scorpions' Dance
Author: Jefferson Morley
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1250275849

For the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in: The untold story of President Richard Nixon, CIA Director Richard Helms, and their volatile shared secrets that ended a presidency. Scorpions' Dance by intelligence expert and investigative journalist Jefferson Morley reveals the Watergate scandal in a completely new light: as the culmination of a concealed, deadly power struggle between President Richard Nixon and CIA Director Richard Helms. Nixon and Helms went back decades; both were 1950s Cold Warriors, and both knew secrets about the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba as well as off-the-books American government and CIA plots to remove Fidel Castro and other leaders in Latin America. Both had enough information on each other to ruin their careers. After the Watergate burglary on June 17, 1972, Nixon was desperate to shut down the FBI's investigation. He sought Helms' support and asked that the CIA intervene—knowing that most of the Watergate burglars were retired CIA agents, contractors, or long-term assets with deep knowledge of the Agency's most sensitive secrets. The two now circled each other like scorpions, defending themselves with the threat of lethal attack. The loser would resign his office in disgrace; the winner, however, would face consequences for the secrets he had kept. Rigorously researched and dramatically told, Scorpions' Dance uses long-neglected evidence to reveal a new perspective on one of America's most notorious presidential scandals.

Scorpions

Scorpions
Author: Robert Kelly
Publisher: Barrytown Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 9781886449206

This classic hallucinatory thriller of the 1960s, newly available, is a book charged with sexual obsession and haunted by the sense that all narrative is itself obsessive and violent. The Scorpions is Robert Kelly's early novel about a psychiatrist who begins to believe one of his patient's paranoid inventions and searches for hard evidence in a funny, crazy, sometimes dark, even spooky American world that cooperates with what he wants to find in it.

Scorpions

Scorpions
Author: Noah Feldman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2014-07-02
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781609417314

""Scorpions" tells the story of four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself, exploring the constitutional battles of the Roosevelt era (1940s and 1950s) and their contemporary relevance."--Book jacket.

Scorpions in the Dark

Scorpions in the Dark
Author: Doreen Gonzales
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2009-08-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1615312757

Many people are frightened by these stinging creepy crawlers, but scorpions are still a very fascinating topic. Your rapt readers will learn fun facts about these eight-legged nocturnal predators.