The Resource The Cruisers : checkmate, Walter Dean Myers
The Cruisers : checkmate, Walter Dean Myers
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The item The Cruisers : checkmate, Walter Dean Myers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The Cruisers : checkmate, Walter Dean Myers represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 7 library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The Cruisers : checkmate
- Title
- The Cruisers
- Title remainder
- checkmate
- Statement of responsibility
- Walter Dean Myers
- Title variation
- Checkmate
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Chess -- Fiction
- Chess -- Juvenile fiction
- Gifted children -- Fiction
- Gifted children -- Juvenile fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Newspapers -- Fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Student newspapers and periodicals -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1937-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ7.M992
- LC item number
- Cq 2011
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- The Cruisers
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Student newspapers and periodicals
- Schools
- Chess
- Gifted children
- African Americans
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Newspapers
- Schools
- Chess
- Gifted children
- African Americans
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Target audience
- pre adolescent
- Label
- The Cruisers : checkmate, Walter Dean Myers
- Control code
- ocn694833020
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 133 p.
- Isbn
- 9780439916271
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2010045106
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- The Cruisers : checkmate, Walter Dean Myers
- Control code
- ocn694833020
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 133 p.
- Isbn
- 9780439916271
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2010045106
- Other physical details
- ill.
Subject
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Chess -- Fiction
- Chess -- Juvenile fiction
- Gifted children -- Fiction
- Gifted children -- Juvenile fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Newspapers -- Fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Student newspapers and periodicals -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
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