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Social Issues: Crime / Violence

TITLE & AUTHOR

SYNOPSIS

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.

Driver's Ed*

COONEY, C

A group of driver's education students steal some highway signs as a class prank - with tragic results.

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.

Life For A Life

HILL, E

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.

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.

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When 13-year-old Robbie shoots an old man in a liquor store, everyone who knows the quiet, withdrawn youth struggles to understand this act of seemingly random violence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.