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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
50 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie--now with bonus content.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
3) Red knife
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father Buck Reinhardt vows revenge against the Red Boyz, an Ojibwe gang accused of supplying her with drugs. When the leader of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered, it is up to Cork O'Connor, a man of mixed heritage, to uncover the truth and prevent further white against red violence in Tamarack County.
4) Nine dragons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch is in the middle of a major case in Los Angeles when his world is turned upside down with one phone call. His usual Sunday morning call to his daughter, who lives with her mother in Hong Kong, is answered by a stranger. Harry learns through the cryptic conversation that he has stumbled into the middle of a kidnapping. His daughter is being held until her mother, Eleanor Wish, can win enough money in the poker rooms of nearby Macau to buy...
5) In darkness
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Inside
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Released from prison after serving fourteen years for a murder he didn't commit, Virgil Skinner, to keep his family safe, agrees to help the California Department of Corrections stop a gang from taking over the state's most notorious supermax with the help of Chief Deputy Warden Peyton Adams.
Author
Series
Wild West MC volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Clara Delany walks into the Aces High Motorcycle Club's hangout, she's hit rock bottom. She's hiding her car from the repo man, she has less than two dollars in her bank account and the only employment she can get is delivering messages for a criminal. All because of a man. Therefore, she's sworn off them. And then she meets West “Buck” Hardy, president of the Aces High MC. Buck also meets her, and the minute he does, he makes it clear (to...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Deputy Marshal Mason Barker feels he's getting too old to be chasing down owlhoots, especially the gang terrorizing the New Mexico Territory led by the ruthless Sonora Kid. But Barker has a noose that's the perfect fit for the Sonora Kid's neck.
10) Kiss the ring
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From one of the most daring voices in urban fiction comes a sexy new novel about a modern-day Foxy Brown who goes undercover in a dangerous quest for revenge.
11) If I grow up
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
12) The wrong crowd
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sister is worried when Brother joins the Too-Tall gang's basketball team.
13) Smoke and steel
Author
Series
Wild West MC volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hellen Moynihan didn't have dreams. She had goals. She knew who she was and what she wanted. She also knew what she didn't. So when her long-term boyfriend didn't make the grade, she moved on. And when her best friend's boyfriend showed signs of being a scam artist, Hellen was on the case. And he wasn't a white hat type of guy... Dustin "Hardcore" Cutler didn't have dreams or goals. A troubled past led Core to do something irredeemable. The only thing...
14) After death
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished-including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he-or anyone else-has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John,...
15) Hell's half acre
Author
Series
Hell's half acre volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Jess Casey confronts a gang-run empire of booze, prostitution, and gunfights when he takes charge of Fort Worth Texas
16) 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.
Author
Series
Death and Texas volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are a million ways to die in the great state of Texas. And on the lawless streets of New Hope, the odds are even worse. Once the home of Comanche, the region has been up for grabs since the settlers drove off the natives. Now it's a magnet for settlers looking for cheap land, merchants looking to exploit its resources--and outlaws looking for a place to hide in between robbing and killing. With shootouts and showdowns being a nightly occurrence,...
Author
Series
Longarm volume 402
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When he captures a blood-thirsty hellcat named Bella Flowers who, along with her gang, has been decapitating deputies, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long, while escorting Bella to her hanging, comes to the aid of a lovely blonde who is the target of a mysterious bushwacker.
19) Hang him twice
Author
Series
Trail west volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Accidental outlaw Dooley Monahan unexpectedly finds himself first the owner of a silver mine in the lawless boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, and then the town's marshal, which forces him into the crossfire between two rival gangs.
20) Dodgers
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
East is only fifteen, but he's already a seasoned gang member, hardened and savvy from a youth spent on the streets of South Central Los Angeles. So when the cops bust a stash house and arrest his uncle, East feels ready to step up and do a man's job -- even if it means finding and killing a key witness. --Publisher
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