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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Scorpions about Iowa, Cedar, Rapids with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: the author was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He received his BFA in painting from the University of Iowa and has been making art ever since. Currently he devotes most of his creative efforts to writing fiction. Mike now lives in Arizona with his wife and two children.
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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled SCORPIONS about Poet, Brooklyn, CCNY with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary.
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conversations.value: Poet and fiction writer, the author was born in 1935 in Brooklyn, and educated at CCNY and Columbia. He has published over sixty more, most recently the novel The Book from the Sky, the long poem Fire Exit, and his fifth collection of short stories. He is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College.
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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Scorpions about Jamal, Scorpions, Newbery with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life.
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conversations.value: Jamal, who is pressured to become leader of the Scorpions gang, worries about school, family, and the rough kids on the street. When a fellow gang member gives him a gun, Jamal suddenly gains a new level of respect from his enemies. A realistic look at a boy who wants to do the right thing but gets caught up in the culture of violence. A Newbery Honor selection. <BR>Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.