hispanic american boys

The author discusses his background as a former gang member and juvenile delinquent in Oakland, California, during the 1980s and 1990s, details his efforts to study the lives of young men from his neighborhood after earning a PhD in sociology at Berkeley, and emphasizes the importance of understanding in order to develop solutions for young men who live in a culture of punishment.

"Twelve-year-old twins Hayden and Jaden, and their older friends Keisha and Carlos, call themselves Snoops, Inc., and consider it their business to catch criminals and investigate crimes--so when someone sabotages several of the projects in the sixth-grade science fair competition they set out to expose the culprit"--Provided by publisher.

Despite his father's reassurances, Pedro is frightened by the monsters in his dreams--until he finds a way to use his love of monster trucks to defeat his dream monsters.

Pedro and his father go on a hike in the woods--where it turns out that Pedro knows a lot more about the plants and animals then his father does, but they both have fun anyway.

When the Fleischman Middle School's mascot, Principal Snider's dog Champ, disappears from his kennel before the big basketball game, most of the students think that the door was left unlatched, but Carlos, one of the four friends of Snoops, Inc., is convinced that someone took him--and it is up to the junior detectives to solve the mystery.

The Fleischman Middle School drama club is supposed to be putting on a play in the school auditorium, but strange noises have convinced many of the actors that the stage is haunted--so it is up to the four friends of Snoops, Inc. to discover the cause of the disturbances and whether or not someone has it in for "Wagons West.".

"Fleischman Middle School has won the regional Math-Tastic competition the last two years, but just before this year's contest, the trophies are stolen--the four friends of Snoops, Inc. have a suspect (or two), but when they set out to solve the mystery their investigation takes an unexpected turn"--Provided by publisher.

Pedro enters the same karate class that his friends Katie and JoJo, and learns some of the ninja moves that he admires in the movies.

Miss Winkle separates the class into teams and instructs them to build towers out of paper cups, and the group who builds the tallest tower wins--but they have very little success until Pedro has an idea about how it can be done.

Pedro is excited for his class's trip to the aquarium, but when he gets separated from the others near the shark tank, he gets frightened and starts running to and fro--until he takes a hint from the shark to stop going in circles.