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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
4) Gangs
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A compendium of viewpoints--both pro and con--on several issues relating to the prevalence of gangs in American society.
5) Gangs
Author
Series
Publisher
Crestwood House
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of gangs with emphasis on present-day street gangs discussing their inner workings, increased violence, and the struggle to keep them under control.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece, East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia, one of the most violent gangs in the United States. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state, and left a trail of bodies in its wake. Award-winning journalist...
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming - the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower - to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; a military-grade vehicle donated...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, psychology and role of gangs in America throughout the years, from their first appearances in urban immigrant communities to the sophisticated operations that are expanding the influence of gangs like the Crips and Bloods deep into the heartland today.
13) Gangs
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple...and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you...
16) Your move
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old James' gang initiation endangers his six-year-old brother Isaac, they find the courage to say, "Thanks, but no thanks."
18) High white sun
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Even though the corrupt Sheriff Ross is dead and gone, outlaws still walk free, peace comes at a price, and redemption remains hard to find in this fiery and violent novel from the author of The Far Empty Sometimes we have to be wolves ... In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry--now Sheriff Cherry--is the new "law" in Big Bend County, yet he still struggles to escape the long, dark shadow of that infamous lawman....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nicolas Fiorillo is a brilliant and ambitious fifteen-year-old from the slums of Naples, eager to make his mark and to acquire power and the money that comes with it. With nine friends, he sets out to create a new paranza, or gang. Together they roam the streets on their motorscooters, learning how to break into the network of small-time hoodlums that controls drug-dealing and petty crime in the city. They learn to cheat and to steal, to shoot semiautomatic...
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