gangs

Discusses why gangs exist and how to cope with the ever-present threat they can present to frightened teens and their families.

A collection of fictional and non-fictional stories and essays by a variety of authors dealing with various aspects of gang life and its influence on disadvantaged youth.

Keely likes bugs and Reg likes rocks, but with their two friends Burt and Shawna, the twins, find plenty in common to keep them busy.

Bertie's all-girl gang becomes involved in a harmless but heartfelt war with an all-boy gang, until Bertie's grandmother steps in with a perfect solution.

Three English children, fascinated by the war air raids, gradually become aware of true fear and horror when they seek vengeance on an opposing gang that destroyed their hideaway.

Cody and his friends get caught up in gang activity when they steal a park bench.

Julia DiVino, a college-bound student at South Bay High School, has vowed never to join a gang, but she faces some difficult decisions when her dream guy, Eric Valiente, becomes a gang member.

Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.

Faced with family problems, difficulty in school, and gangs in the barrio, Enrique dreams of some day reaching the "other America" depicted on television, while sympathetic teachers help him cope by supporting his fight to study French instead of ESL.

After he moves to Miami, seventeen-year-old David, who is an unusually fast runner, gets invited to join the Hurricanes' track team, but he soon finds himself mixed up in a mystery involving a toy gun, a Cuban American boy, and the gang called the Black Roses.