violence

Ambitious high school senior and honor student Efrain Rodriguez makes some questionable choices in pursuit of his dream to escape the South Bronx and attend an Ivy League college.

Presents an overview of groups, past and present, formed to promote hatred of and violence against targeted minorities, and explores ways to foster understanding and peaceful coexistence.

Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.

Theresa Anderson and Devon Hampton set out to beat the SAT in order to get into a top college; however, they must also deal with the reality of street violence that could keep them both from realizing their dream.

Provides fifteen essays that offer personal and professional perspectives on violence.

Andy, a teenage boy, accidentally shoots and kills another student while drinking at a party at his father's isolated cabin, and after trying to conceal her death, Andy and his friends have to deal with the consequences.

Presents twenty-four opposing argument essays on four questions regarding guns and violence: whether gun violence is a serious problem, whether government measures reduce gun violence, whether gun control is constitutional, and whether gun ownership is an effective means of self-defense.

Explores the issues surrounding the growing problem of violence in schools, in both rural and urban areas.

The book tells how gun violence affects all of us and how we can be part of the solution.

Discusses the issues surrounding youth violence in the United States. Includes library study guides and classroom discussion activities.