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1) The lure
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English
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Living in a violent, impoverished town outside Washington, D.C., 15-year-old Blaise joins an infamous gang against the advice and warnings of her best friends only to be required by her new leader to put herself in life-threatening situations.
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Series
Trail West series volume 3
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English
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"--
4) Scorpions
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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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.
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English
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Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes.
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English
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In 1946, as London struggles to rebuild after the devastation of the Blitz, Alice Diamond, leader of a gang of women jewel thieves, takes on a teenager named Nell and guides her in their underworld existence even as Nell plots to carve out her own path to power and riches.
7) Benched
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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.
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Series
Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs mysteries volume 2
Publisher
MacAdam Cage
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
9) Family ties
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English
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Hill's Family Ties tells the story of D'Ray Reid, who has put prison behind him and wants to repair his broken relationship with his mother. But when D'Ray comes home, lies and legal troubles haunt his every move.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Junebug hasn't seen his friend Robert since the family moved from their housing project in May. It's Labor Day weekend, reunion time, and Mama, Tasha, Harriet, and Junebug are off to the beach. Robert is there, but so is Trevor, another boy from the project. Trevor is a gang member; Trevor has a gun. With Junebug gone, Trevor has easily befriended Robert. Robert might even join Trevor's gang, the Rex. How can Junebug stop him? At the same time, Junebug...
12) Isolated threat
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English
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"Ever since he escaped his father's biker gang, sheriff's deputy Brady Wyatt has never looked back. Then Cecilia Mills asks Brady to help her hide a child from the delinquent crew. But when threats impact the safety of the makeshift family, will they find a way to protect themselves...or will the Sons of the Badlands take the child back into its dangerous grip?" -- Page [4] cover.
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English
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In 1920s London, pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambles to survive in her gritty neighborhood. With her father in prison and her brother in debt to a crime syndicate, she struggles to protect her father's territory. Recruited by Mary Carr, Alice joins a female gang, the Forty Elephants, and tastes success. But it's not long before she wants more--no matter the cost.
14) The Outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Since his parents' death, fourteen year-old Ponyboy's loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang. When his best friend Johnny kills a member of a rival gang, a nightmare of violence begins and swiftly envelopes Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Squatters in the huge, midwestern MegaMall, fifteen-year-old Tick and his gang of lost, abandoned, or runaway children face off against a rival gang, and thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux, whose parents and aunt have mysteriously disappeared, gets caught between.
16) Barrio kings
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend shows up to ask him why he left the gang, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought his violent past would just go away. When his pregnant girlfriend is hit in a drive-by shooting, Rosario has to make some...
17) Just like that
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
18) Act of revenge
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
19) Massacre
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Series
Erin O'Reilly mysteries volume 8
Language
English
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"There's no line we won't cross for love. Detective Erin O'Reilly's mom always wanted her to find the right man. Instead, she found gentleman gangster Morton Carlyle. They've been helping each other survive New York's mean streets, while building a precarious relationship. But now, in the wake of a brutal mob hit, Erin and her K-9 partner Rolf are following a trail that implicates some of Carlyle's associates. Loyalties are strained to the breaking...
20) Drive-by
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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.
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