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Talented magician Danny, who is half-Chinese, half-British, and dwarf strongman Zamora try to find the connection between the disastrous end of the circus Mysterium, where Danny's performer parents were killed, and the disappearance of his guardian aunt, who is investigating sinister gangs in Hong Kong.

Four friends from New York's Hell's Kitchen suffer a year of humiliation, beatings, and sexual abuse at the hands of Sean Nokes and his flunkies at the Wilkinson Boy's Home, leaving lasting scars that haunt them into adulthood. When Nokes is murdered by two of the group, the other two enact a plot to twist the legal system to their advantage and not only free their friends, but get revenge on the men who had tortured them when they were helpless prisoners.

A teen's suburban neighborhood bands together for its own survival in a world stricken by a catastrophic blackout.

As Jin Ling tries to save her sister, Mei Yee, from the Brotherhood of the Red Dragon in Hak Nam Walled City, one boy, Dai, can reunite them and save their lives--but only if he's willing to risk his own.

Flea, the least significant member of a gang of teens who sleep next to the Temple walls in first-century Jerusalem, witnesses Christ's passion and resurrection, torn between Jude, who protects Flea and employes him to run errands, and a brutal Roman spy determined to uncover the truth about "the Magician.".

A boy running away from his homelife in El Salvador looks for a safe place to call home, only to cross paths with an American girl also seeking salvation.

Discusses the problem of coping with increasing violence in the community and in the schools.

Presents Susan Hinton's young adult novel written in Chinese about three brothers who, after the death of their parents, face the conflicting values of adolescence in a society that separates the "haves" from the "have nots.".

Locke Lamora, a member of a group of orphans know for their wits and talent for thieving, finds himself pulled into the city's criminal underworld and struggles to free himself from the group before his life is destroyed.

A group of young backpackers led by eighteen-year-old Laura must outwit three motorcyclists who terrorize them in a wilderness area.