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"Eleven-year-old Mor was used to hearing his father's voice, even if no one else could since his father's death. It was comforting. It was also a reminder that Mor had made a promise to his father before he passed: keep your sisters safe. Keep the family together. But almost as soon as they are orphaned, that promise seems impossible to keep. With an aunt from the big city ready to separate him and his sisters as soon as she arrives, and a gang of boys from a nearby village wanting everything he has--including his spirit--Mor is tested in ways he never imagined. With only the hot summer months to prove himself, Mor must face a choice. Does he listen to his father and keep his heart true, but risk breaking his promise through failure? Or is it easier to just join the Danka Boys, whom in all their maliciousness are at least loyal to their own?"--Amazon.com.

Ash is forced into a meeting with his adopted father, crime boss "Papa" Dino Golzine, but with Colonel Foxx still on the prowl, and a damaging news story about to break, the situation quickly turns into a final showdown.

Ash has escaped from the mental institution where he was being held captive, taking with him proof of the dangers of the mind control drug banana fish, but crime lord "Papa" Dino Golzine is not about to let Ash go, and hires the mysterious Blanca to recapture the young man at any cost.

The news that Ash has died devastates Eiji, but Ash's posse suspects the truth--that something more sinister is afoot--and begins to make plans to free Ash from the special medical facility where crime lord "Papa" Dino Golzine has arranged for him to become a guinea pig for testing of the mind control drug banana fish.

Ash Lynx, the adopted heir of a crime boss, rejects his father's kingdom and sets up his own gang; however, a chance meeting with a dying man leads him into conflict with his father's mafia and provides a clue to his brother's post-Vietnam madness.

"Watching the news, Hanagaki Takemichi learns his junior-high girlfriend Tachibana Hinata has died. A sudden shove sends him 12 years into the past to face the Tokyo Manji Gang that once made his life hell, which is also responsible for Hinata's death in the present. To save Hinata and change the future, Takemichi must rise to the top of Kanto's most sinister delinquent gang! But things aren't so simple when he befriends the gang's leader, Mikey. What turned Mikey from a petulant child to the leader of the most infamous gang in Tokyo?"--Provided by publisher.

"In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular aerial races that draw in cheering crowds by the tens of thousands. Abel is at just such a race when he witnesses the unthinkable. A long-shot competitor pulls off an impossible win--then flies into a destructive rage! Someone in the city is experimenting on dragons: hacking their DNA, rebuilding their bodies, and breaking their minds. Who could be driving the dragons berserk? Abel must find out who's behind the experiments and put a stop to them, and to do so he'll infiltrate the kins' underground street races on a long-shot dragon of his own"--Publisher.

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

Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.

This biography of the controversial hip-hop star looks at how his alliance with a notorious street gang and how his story shines light on the long-running connection between rap, gangs, and police in New York City.