inner cities

Ten-year-old Danny is bored and lonely when he hops on the back of the exciting and somewhat scary tiger that offers him a ride, but he soon discovers that it's easier to get on the tiger than it is to get off.

Twelve-year-old boys living in a rough part of New York confront questions about what it means to be a friend, a father, and a man.

A biography of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two promising high school basketball players in Chicago whose experiences were captured in the documentary film "Hoop Dreams.".

An examination of inner-city life, discussing the informal, but well-known codes of dress, talk, and behavior that rules the streets, and contending that the most effective means of counteracting the culture of the street is a strong, loving, decent family.

Jada runs away from her Brooklyn home and abusive stepfather at the age of sixteen and hooks up with Born, a neighborhood kingpin who treats her to the high life until she succumbs to crack addiction.

The author tells the story of her struggles to reconcile her ghetto background and the world of private schools, wealthy classmates, and important jobs offered to her because of her academic talent.

Cupcake Brown shares the story of her life, beginning with her mother's death in 1976 when she was just eleven, discussing how she ended up in foster care, her introduction to drugs, alcohol and sex as a runaway, her gang affiliation, and her addiction to crack, and telling how she turned her life around and eventually became an attorney and motivational speaker.

Two sisters growing up in the Bronx find themselves involved in dangerous and exciting romances that show them a new world of elegance, drugs, and heartache.

Inner-city teenagers find a suitcase full of cocaine and must decide whether to sell it and take the opportunities the money would provide or to destroy it to keep the drug from poisoning their community.