Background information on the history of gangs in America precedes first-person accounts by four gang members from different backgrounds and with differing ideas about the role of gangs in their lives.
Discusses the history of gangs in the United States, describing current characteristics of gangs, and presenting consequences of and solutions to gang activity.
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.
A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.
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.
Presents twenty-five critical essays by experts and policy makers on the subject of gangs and addresses issues such as the seriousness of gang activity in a number of ethnic communities and law enforcement strategies to combat gangs.
Contains sixteen essays that provide information about gangs for teens, discussing the consequences of gang violence, the involvement of girls in gangs, gangs in rural and suburban America, and breaking free of gangs.
