juvenile delinquency

Author Maureen Stanton describes her difficult childhood watching her parents divorce and her now-single mother turn to shoplifting and grand larceny. Stanton herself begins a life of crime that includes vandalism, breaking and entering, and drugs before finally finding a path away from self-destruction.

When Jamie, nicknamed "Punkzilla, " travels by bus to see his fatally ill older brother, Peter, he writes letters to him detailing his experiences along the way.

Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.

L.A. Crip gang member Kody Scott recounts his life from the time he joined at eleven years old to being in solitary confinement at San Quentin.

Awakening in the Empire of the Apes, Hayashida learns that he's the savior prophecied by the Ancient Text and must travel to Mount Poplokis and retrieve the ancient Sword of Lightning to achieve his destiny before defeating his sworn enemy, the dreaded That Guy.

Masked Takenouchi becomes a star athlete and the Four Great Ones become goodwill ambassadors when the sumo club becomes all the rage at Cromartie High.

After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.

When troubled sixteen-year-old Jimmer "JD" Dobbs returns from a mysterious summer "upstate" he finds that his mother has adopted an abused Rottweiler that JD names Johnny Rotten, but soon his tenuous relationship with the dog is threatened.

Elias feels his relationship with Jordan is more like a brother than a friend, but he begins to have qualms when a schoolyard fight gets them both arrested, and when Jordan comes up with yet another illegal get rich scheme, Elias tries to find a way to distance himself from the trouble he is sure is coming.

As the ultimate showdown shapes up between Team Urameshi and Team Toguro, Kurama prepares for battle with his new ability to transform into a fox demon at will; meanwhile, Sakyo sets out to forge a path between the demon and human worlds.