This book is about a kid named Jamal Hicks, and his best friend named Tito Cruz. Jamal have a brother that is in jail, because he stabbed another person, so Jamal’s mama need to get the money to get him out of jail. Jamal has a bad time at school, because he doesn’t do his homework, and he is always getting in trouble, and he is always on Mr. Davidson office {the principal of the school}. He also has a young sister named Sassy. At school there is a kid named Dwayne, and he always a bother to Jamal, thats why sometimes Jamal gets in trouble.
His brother Randy the one that in jail, he had a group named the Scorpions he was the leader the group, the group does lots of things, like they sold drugs, and crack, and stuff like that. Jamal have a friend in the Scorpions his named is Mack, and Mack told to Jamal that if he want to collect the money that were 2000 thousand dollars, he can be in the Scorpions and he can be the leader, he said that he can take Randy place until he gets out of jail.
The next day Jamal told to Tito that he is going to run the Scorpions, and that he can be there too with him. The next day they went together with Mack to go and meet the other Scorpions, and Mack gave a gun to the kids, so they feel protected, so they go with the other guys and there were 3 guys one was Indian, Blood, and Angel. Jamal told them that he is only 12 years old, and he is very young to run this group, but know he is the leader of the Scorpions.
In school Dwayne bothers Jamal, so Jamal gets angry, and Dwayne said that he wants to fight Jamal outside, but Jamal had to bring the gun to school, so when they were fighting Jamal took the gun and scared Dwayne, but Dwayne in the fight punched Jamal in the face. Jamal is scared that Dwayne is gonna tell somebody about the gun. Tito and Jamal are thinking if they are going to throw the gun away, so Jamal told Tito that if he can keep this for a while. Indian the one that wants to be the leader is trying to hurt Jamal, so he can be the leader.
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Imagine teachers carrying guns in school. School boards are trying to reduce the amount of shots fired in school, how will adding more guns achieve that? Although guns have been used for protection for decades, they will only cause more harm if used by teachers. Protection on school grounds is undoubtedly essential, but adding more guns will ultimately lead to a more dangerous environment. ...
The next day Randy was on the hospital, the doctors said that someone stabbed him, Jamal thinks that it was Indian. The next day Tito said that Abuela {Tito’s grandma} found the gun and told to him to never come back, Tito was crying a lot. Jamal don’t want to be the leader of the Scorpions anymore, because he is going to be in so much trouble, so he told Mack that he want to tell to Indian that he can be the leader of the Scorpions. Indian said that he can meet him at the park at 11 o’clock at the night.
Jamal asked Tito that can he come with him? Tito said yes, and Jamal told Tito to bring the gun. They were at the park and Indian and Angel were over there waiting for them, Jamal told Indian that he didn’t want to be the leader of the Scorpions anymore, that he can be the leader now, Indian said okay, but he pushed Jamal, and punched him in the stomach, the Angel grabbed his body to Indian punched him in the face. Then when Jamal woke up Angel was on the floor, and Indian too, Tito he shot them.
This story reminds me when I was the leader of a group, and it was really hard, because you need to do so much work, and also taking care of the group. I think the kids {Jamal, and Tito} when they got the gun they said that they feel protected, but I think they feel scared, because the police, or a family member can catch them, and put them in jail. I predict hat in the future of this book will happen like, this boys will get in trouble, because Abuela found the gun, and Tito shoot somebody, and also Dwayne can tell somebody about the gun, like his mom, the principal of the school, or a teacher.
