juvenile delinquency

A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.

In their own voices, raw and uncensored, inmates sentenced to death as teenagers talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there.

After realizing his crush, Tsukamoto Tenma, has taken an interest in his rival, a depressed Harima Kenji decides to draw a manga.

Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.

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.