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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever. Puffin is proud to publish...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
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.
5) Scorpions
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Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs.
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.
7) Drive-by
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Twelve-year-old Tito, while helping to care for his little sister, struggles to find his way during the aftermath of his brother's death in a gang-related shooting.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
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Description
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When he returns to Illinois and the gang culture on the south side of Fairfield after six years in Colorado, high school senior Luis Fuentes, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, falls for a girl and enters a dark world after learning some disturbing news about his family.
10) Benched
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Cody and his friends accept a challenge from a local gang to steal a park bench, their main concern is keeping themselves on the gang's good side. But Cody quickly learns that the theft is no harmless prank.
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates, and others.
14) iBoy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.
15) The black dragon
Author
Series
Mysterium (Julian Sedgwick) volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Talented magician Danny, who is half-Chinese, half-British, and dwarf strongman Zamora try to find the connection between the disastrous end of the circus Mysterium, where Danny's performer parents were killed, and the disappearance of his guardian aunt, who is investigating sinister gangs in Hong Kong.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
17) In Darkness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
Author
Series
Renegade spirit volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When the World Peace Alliance, the new world government, declares Christianity a crime punishable by death, high-schooler Patch must make a tough decision--give up his life for his cause, or renouce his faith and lose his soul.
19) Bones of a saint
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In 1970s northern California, fifteen-year-old RJ Armante must fight to save himself and his disabled brother from the Blackjacks gang, and free his hometown, Arcangel, from its past.
20) Homeboyz
Author
Series
Hoopster trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Teddy's little sister, Tina, is gunned down in a drive-by shooting, the gang members who rule the streets in the Anderson family's rapidly deteriorating neighborhood dismiss the indcident as just another case of RP, RT -- wrong place, wrong time. While the Anderson family mourns, Teddy plots revenge. He is arrested for attempted homicide and thrown in to the dark reality of California's juvenile prisons, his plans for revenge foiled. An innovative...