gangs

Looks at the dangers of growing up in Mexico amidst the drug wars and violent gang Culture.

Sudhir Venkatesh recounts how he managed to work his way into one of Chicago's must brutal crack-dealing gangs and describes the horrific events he witnessed, and sometimes participated in.

In a dusty, barren Texas, ruined by pollution, a young cowboy searching for the ocean and a teenage girl on the run, both struggling with loss, unite to take on a violent gang.

When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.

On a summer night in northern Mexico, four teens Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys have just snuck away from a quinceanera celebration when a gang of narcos attacks. Their families are murdered and they narrowly escape, but the four are left with an awful truth. They've lost even more than their loved ones they've lost everything.

"Esta and Harte set off on a cross-country chase through time to steal back the elemental stones they need to save the future of magic"--.

"A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death ..."--Amazon.

"For years, Dalston has been home to monsters--and not just the property developers who own the area. Out of the holes dug for new blocks of flats, huge beasts began to emerge. Gangs formed, territorial battles ensued... and now two friends must fight for their lives as they discover the true depths of Dalston's darkest secret"--Back cover.

Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders.".

"Ikebukuro, Tokyo. A place full of fires waiting to be lit and plenty of people ready to light a match. Twins who are the perfect opposite of each other. An idol who's nothing like her older brother. A girl with a crush on her senior in the Dollars. And a headless rider with a bounty on her...uh, head. Keeping the peace is probably not gonna happen"--Back cover.