We search for direct CP violation in charmless hadronic B decays observed in a sample of about 22.7 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collider. We measure the following charge asymmetries: ${\cal A}_{CP} (B^{±}\toη^\prime K^{±}) = -0.11± 0.11± 0.02$, ${\cal A}_{CP} (B^{±}\toω π^{±}) = -0.01^{+0.29}_{-0.31}± 0.03$, ${\cal A}_{CP} (B^{±}\toϕ K^{±}) = -0.05± 0.20± 0.03$, ${\cal A}_{CP} (B^{±}\toϕ K^{*±}) = -0.43^{+0.36}_{-0.30}± 0.06$, and ${\cal A}_{CP} (B^{0}\toϕ K^{*0}) = 0.00± 0.27± 0.03$. ; Comment: 8 pages, 2 postscript figues, submitted to Phys. Rev. D (rapid communications)