Presents a collection of alphabetically arranged entries related to aspects of international organized crime, including notorious crime leaders, crime groups, and countries with crime enterprises. Includes photographs.
The reader, as an unwilling member of the Red Flowers gang, must find a way to stop the gang's slave trade and stay alive. By choosing specific pages, the reader determines the outcome of the plot.
and how they were captured by the daring detectives of the New Cut Gang ; including Thunderbolt's Waxwork & the gas-fitters' ball
Pullman, Philip
2012
Eleven-year-old Benny Kaminsky leads a rag-tag gang of neighborhood children as they use improbable disguises and crazy ruses while investigating such crimes as counterfeiting and stolen silver in 1894 London.
Explores the dangers of city gangs through the experiences of Brooklyn boys Butch Young, who belonged to a gang and then left it, and Gino Mercado, who has stayed out of gangs.
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Nikki blames her brother for their parents' death in a house fire, but when he gets involved with a gang, Nikki knows she is the only one who can save him.
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.