gangs

On the day he enters Kennedy High in Manhattan wearing a patch over one eye, sixteen-year-old Horace Hobart is urged to join the toughest gang at school.

A street-punk poet and an old painter form a friendship and confront their fears.

Looks at the career of Willie L. Williams, discussing how he became the first black police chief in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, where in 1992 he restructured the top-heavy department, while dealing with a series of high-profile cases.

In the wake of a gangland shooting at a popular tourist site in Philadelphia, Matthew Payne pursues a suspicion that the case is related to a murder near the Schuykill River, and follows a hunch to the Texas-Mexico border, where he encounters more danger than anticipated.

When the World Peace Alliance, the new world government, declares Christianity a crime punishable by death, high-schooler Patch must make a tough decision--give up his life for his cause, or renouce his faith and lose his soul.

This book discusses young people's involvement in gangs and the issues for and against belonging to a gang.

A fictional account of the life of J. Willis Newton, a sharecropper's son who became the notorious leader of a band of outlaws.

Discusses youth gangs, including information about their appeal to young people, the problems of gang-related violence and drugs, and how to get out and stay out of gangs.