TY  - BOOK
AU  - Myers, Dean Walter
TI  - The cruisers checkmate
SN  - 9780439916325
AV  - PZ7.M992 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scholastic
KW  - Realistic fiction
KW  - Series
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Middle school
KW  - Black boys to men
KW  - Boys of Color
N1  - R
; 730L
; Lexile
; R
; Raz-Plus

N2  - 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
ER  -