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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants"--
"At night, Las Mal Criadas own these streets. They're the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, and Nalah is their leader. She's getting weary of the violent throw downs and the boydega clubs; her dream is to...
4) Rebeldes
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
Español
Description
Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."
6) The lure
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Living in a violent, impoverished town outside Washington, D.C., 15-year-old Blaise joins an infamous gang against the advice and warnings of her best friends only to be required by her new leader to put herself in life-threatening situations.
8) The Saints
Author
Series
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The world inside an infected Colorado high school quarantined by the government takes a startling turn for the worse when a new gang enters the school and starts gaining power.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A small boy joins with his mother to find a creative way to save his older brother from the dangers of gang violence. Includes a list of organizations and websites dealing with gang prevention.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
11) Los escorpiones
Author
Series
Publisher
Norma
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Jamal se convierte en el líder de los Escorpiones, una pandilla de Harlem en Nueva York, descubre que sus enemigos le tratarán con respeto si tiene una pistola -- hasta que sucede una tragedia.
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Paul Varderman, a secondary student in an English Catholic School, is a loner until, just as he is becoming friends with "the freaks," the school bully encourages Paul to join his gang and gives him a knife to carry as an incentive.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Francisco Ortiz, a handsome straight-A student and gifted basketball player from the barrio, wins a full scholarship to an elite boarding school. His future seems promising. But soon after Francisco moves into the dorm, his new classmates assume the worst of him. Things are even more complicated when Francisco realizes that back home in the hood, he no longer fits in, though his friends still rely on him to solve their problems.
14) Newsgirl
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1851 San Francisco is booming. 12-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family and they are eager to make a new life in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females and Amelia decides she will earn more money as a boy. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gang of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers for a fortune.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Ángel is an aspiring boxer who avoids gang violence by working out every day with the Alisal Boxing Club. Can he avoid succumbing to the gangbangers in his neighborhood and have a successful relationship with his beautiful girlfriend Britney? Can their love survive all of the conflict in their lives?
18) City of orphans
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
19) Our violent ends
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat once and for all"--
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Not everyone gets to be the hero. Qi'ra listened to the dreams and promises of a boy with a reckless smile, only to be torn away from him and returned to the White Worms gang while Han made his way to freedom. Now freedom seems like a luxury she can't afford while she concentrates on survival and despairs of ever leaving Corellia. But her fortunes seem to turn when a representative of the crime syndicate Crimson Dawn plucks Qi'ra from captivity and...
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