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22) The radius of us
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After being mugged, seventeen-year-old Gretchen is still struggling to deal with her fears when she meets Phoenix, an eighteen-year-old immigrant from El Salvador. Told in alternating first person points of view, this is a story of love, sacrifice, and the journey from victim to survivor. It offers an intimate glimpse into the causes and devastating impact of Latino gang violence, both in the U.S. and in Central America, and explores the risks that...
23) Creeboy
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Set in the 2000s on the fictional reserve of Pâ-ko-sey-i-mo-min, 16-year-old Josh "Creeboy" navigates the world of Indigenous gang life. His dad, the leader of one of the gangs on his reserve, is in jail, and his older brother Darion has taken his place. Josh is unsure whether gang life is for him -- that is until Darion is killed during a run-in with a rival gang. Angry, hurt and frustrated by systemic racism against Indigenous peoples, Josh, now...
25) After us
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Scarred by their respective tragedies, Melissa and Javier find potential healing in a relationship that is threatened by Javier's violent gang members.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted two Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue civilian Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a third officer. Less than two hours later, the city of LA, a powder keg of racial tension, exploded in violence as people took to the streets in a terrifying orgy of rioting that lasted six days. In 144 hours, sixty lives were lost....
29) Dodgers: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sent by his uncle along with his hotheaded brother and other teens to kill a major witness, East, a young gang member from Los Angeles, finds his perspectives changed by his encounters outside of the city.
30) Hang him twice
Author
Series
Trail west volume 03
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Dooley Monahan saves Buffalo Bill Cody's life, Cody grubstakes him to purchase of a silver mine in the lawless, violent boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. When he guns down three outlaws, the grateful townsfolk make Dooley sheriff. Then he discovers a town tradition: if a sheriff's no good, they hang him. And fingers are starting to point"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bethany Jernigan owes her bestie. Big time. So when wedding planning overburdens the bride-to-be, Bethany steps in to handle the nitty-gritty. But the guy in charge isn't anything like she imagined. He's gruff, tattooed, and 100% male. His staff is even rougher around the edges, and it's not long before she feels as if she's stepped into some kind of crazy alternate reality. Trey Harding never wanted this to get so out of hand. One little lie somehow...
34) Shack and back
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Crater insults T-Ball and causes her to quit the Spurwink Gang, just when they need her riding talent to win a bike race.
35) Beats and blow
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The founder and leader of the Crescent Crew negotiates a supply of products from lockdown while his second-on-command, Bone, has a secret agenda that is starting an internal war.
37) The strange
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the Silence comes, stopping all communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars, fourteen-year-old Annabelle Crisp, in 1931, New Galveston, Mars, sets off through the wastelands of the Martian desert to exact revenge on the man responsible for destroying her family.
38) Zero cool
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1967, American radiologist Peter Ross takes a vacation to the south of Spain, where he meets a beautiful woman on a beach and finds himself swept up in a gang war over a precious artifact.
39) Hound Dog
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Hound Dog moves to the country, he feels pressure to join the Mean Dog Gang, but with the help of his old friend Jojo he remains true to himself.