gangs

A sixteen-year-old girl with a miserable home life find love and friendship for one heartbreaking summer with a gang of other teenagers with problems.

"Describes the crimes juveniles commit, the attitudes and changes in the juvenile court system, and the ways that police and other social services deal with juvenile offenders" --Provided by publisher.

Chronciles the lives of rival gang members. Allowed unprecedented access to this culture, the producers offer an unflinching look at big-city gangs like the Bloods, Crips, Folk, Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples coming to middle America; Gang Wars 2 follows Leifel Jackson, onetime leader of the OGCs (Original Gangster Crips), as he is released from prison after almost a decade behind bars.

Authors debate on ways to respond to the problems posed by growing gang presence.

Investigating the shooting death of a Chinese liquor store owner, detective Harry Bosch identifies a suspect as a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad only to have his daughter go missing, a situation that prompts his high-stakes search across the Pacific.

A ghetto youth and his friends hope to make money as movers but their venture is continually threatened by a few seeking faster and easier ways to make money.

After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.

In the spring of 1929, 12-year-old Jimmy makes friends with the new woman in his Providence, R.I., neighborhood and becomes involved with gangsters who have been searching for her son for a year.

While house sitting for his shop teacher in the California hills, a teenage boy learns a great deal about responsibility, resourcefulness, and courage when a motorcycle gang attacks the house and starts a brush fire.