gangs

The members of the Bond team at Deveraux Academy, a special high school that trains students to be secret agents, are on the lookout for the source of a new street drug called Drac, while one student seeks revenge on a gang called the Serpents.

Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders.".

Contains alphabetically arranged entries on the gangs and gangsters, from Jesse James to Al Capone and Sonny Barger, that have captivated the public and achieved the status of folk antiheros, covering bank robbers, Mafia members, drug kingpins, Western outlaws, and more.

The author describes her childhood and young adulthood as the daughter of a wealthy yakuza boss in Japan, discussing bullying and discrimination from her classmates and teachers, her experiences as a gang member, her drug addiction and abusive relationships, her suicide attempt, and her empowering decision to get tattooed.

Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother's gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive.

Chronicles a year spent in the ghettos of South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee, following girl gangs, tracing the lives of several key gang members, and looking at the issues that drove them into a life of violence.

Brother and Sister Bear and their cousin, Fred, plan a dog show for the annual church fair that has everyone in Beartown excited, including Too-Tall and his gang, who have a plan for stirring things up.

Robinson and his friends discover a chop shop in their neighborhood and plan to break in and steal money from it in order to help the poor.

Robinson continues stealing money from the gang the Street Rangers in order to help the poor.

Robinson, living in a neighborhood with a lot of gang violence, risks stealing money from the Street Rangers to pay for a new roof to save the community center.