Social Issues: Crime / Violence
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TITLE & AUTHOR
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SYNOPSIS
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Bad*
FERRIS, J |
Sentenced to six months in the Girls Rehabilitation
Center for her participation in a convenience store robbery, Dallas
acknowledges her responsibility for her actions and is insightful about
how her low self-esteem and need for love has driven her to delinquency.
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Driver's Ed*
COONEY, C |
A group of driver's education students steal some
highway signs as a class prank - with tragic results.
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Hope In The Unseen: An American Odyssey From The Inner
City To The Ivy League
SUSKIND, R |
At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in
Washington, D.C., honor students know that any special attention in a
place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric
Jennings will not swallow his pride, and studies and strives as if his
life depends on it - and it does.
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Life For A Life
HILL, E
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Story of the unlikely bond between an African-American
father and the teenager who killed his son, a tale of violent
self-destruction reclaimed by the inexhaustible power of love and
forgiveness.
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Life In Prison
WILLIAMS, S |
The author's account of his life in San Quentin State
Prison in California where he lived in a small cell on death row for 16
years because of a murder conviction. |
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Making Up Megaboy
WALTER, V |
When 13-year-old Robbie shoots an old man in a liquor
store, everyone who knows the quiet, withdrawn youth struggles to
understand this act of seemingly random violence. |
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Miracle's Boys
WOODSON, J |
Lafayette's close friendship with his older brother
Charlie changes after Charlie is released from the correctional facility
and returns a hostile stranger.
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Secret Of Two Brothers*
HERNANDEZ, I |
Beaver has just returned to his West Dallas barrio after
serving time in prison for a crime he did not commit. During Beaver's
absence, his younger brother, Cande, abused by his father, had to fend for
himself. The two brothers are successful in avoiding their father and in
becoming a family again. However, when Cande is involved in a car
accident, the abuse and the brothers' living situation, is discovered.
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Shadow People*
MCDONALD, J |
In this chilling story, a troubled Gabriel finds himself
involved with three other teenagers in a series of increasingly violent
acts.
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Buffalo Tree
RAPP, A |
Sura and his cell mate Coly Jo try to do their time and
evade sadistic games within the Juvenile Detention. As things turn bad for
Coly Jo, Sura determines to escape with body and spirit intact - if he
can.
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Rifle
PAULSEN, G |
The mesmerizing tale of a rifle, lovingly created by a
gifted gunsmith in 1768, passed from one owner to another to the present
day without anyone checking to see if the gun was loaded. And it was.
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Swallowing Stones
MCDONALD, J |
When Michael fires his new rifle into the air on his 17th
birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone.
But it does, and he must deal with the haunting consequences.
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Tenderness*
CORMIER, R |
The lives of two troubled teens dramatically intersect
in this psychological thriller as teenage serial killer Eric Poole and
runaway Lori Cranston embark on a journey that will either save of destroy
them.
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