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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.
22) In Darkness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Appears on list
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.
25) Bones of a saint
Author
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.
26) 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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Thirteen-year-old Socko and his mother leave their cramped, unsafe inner city apartment and move to a house in a new suburban development where they plan to care for Socko's crotchety great-grandfather, but when they arrive they discover that the rest of the homes are unfinished, they are the only residents of Moon Ridge Estates, and that trouble has followed them.
29) Foolproof
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Seventeen-year-old Daniel's new girlfriend says she loves him, that she'd do anything for him. She makes Daniel feel like anything is possible. So he ignores her lies. It's not like Cyn is a bad person. Then Daniel finds out that Cyn has been using him to move drugs across the border. Foolproof is a tough book about the consequences of gang life that asks readers to consider the line between taking risks and taking lives. Daniel crosses that line...
30) Scared to death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Just days after she came to Chloe for help, Tessa is found dead. Now Chloe has to find who might have wanted Tessa out of the way.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Badly injured, fourteen-year-old Blade must continue to use his exceptional "street smarts" and waning strength to outsmart dangerous thugs while he considers surrendering to the police to face the consequences of a past he has tried to forget.
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.
35) Your move
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When ten-year-old James' gang initiation endangers his six-year-old brother Isaac, they find the courage to say, "Thanks, but no thanks."
36) The wrong crowd
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sister is worried when Brother joins the Too-Tall gang's basketball team.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 131
Pub. Date
2017, 1992.
Description
While surfing in California, a surfer disappears and the reader must investigate the disappearance, a search that leads to a gang called the Surf Monkeys.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A loose retelling of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, set in tenth-century Baghdad, in which twelve-year-old Marjana tries to keep her brother, Jamal, from joining a gang while helping Ali Baba, their master's cruel brother.
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.