gangs

Orphaned and homeless, twelve-year-old Chipper Carey is a street-wise gang member in 1890s New York City, until a con man introduces him to a wealthy woman who is seeking her long-lost nephew and Chipper must decide where his loyalties lie.

Thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux, trying to solve the mystery of her aunt's disappearance at the mall, becomes caught up in an ongoing fight between rival gangs of "night children"--abandoned, lost, or runaway kids who live in the mall, but they must all band together to fight a common enemy when they learn the mall owner is planning to exterminate them.

After being smuggled out of Nigeria and abandoned in London Femi gets involved with a gang, and Sade tries to cope with her brother's problem while worrying about whether the family will be granted asylum.

When his parents divorce and his mother moves with him to Belfast, Northern Ireland, twelve-year-old Eddie contends with the Reservoir Pups, a gang of children who rule his neighborhood.

With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.

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.

When Miss Breakbone confiscates Junkyard's crucial find, Wheels, Pencil, Spider, and the rest of the Dunderheads plot to teach her a lesson.

As sixth-grader Archie and his six-year-old brother Oggie shuttle back and forth between their separated parents' two homes, Archie tries desperately to take care of Oggie and to pretend that everything is normal.