Books+about+Gangs


 * BOOKS ABOUT GANGS**

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row (Susan Kuklin) Bluford Series (Townsend Press) Tyrell (Coe Booth) Manchild in the Promised Land (Claude Brown) Upstate (Kalisha Buckhanon) The Pact (Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, & Lisa Frazier Page) We Beat the Street (Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, & Sharon Draper) Romiette and Julio (Sharon Draper) Bang! (Sharon Flake) The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) (a classic, of course) Beckoners (Carrie Mac) Makes Me Wanna Holler (Nathan McCall) Autobiography of My Dead Brother (Walter Dean Myers) Scorpions (Walter Dean Myers) A Different Kind of Heat (Antonio Pagliarulo) Always Running: LA Vida Loca (Luis Rodriguez) True Notebooks (Mark Salzman) My Bloody Life (Reymundo Sanchez) Once a King, Always a King (Reymundo Sanchez) Lady Q (Reymundo Sanchez) Monster (Sanyika Shakur) Inside the Crips(Colton Simpson) Homeboyz(Alan Lawrence Sitomer) Down these Mean Streets(Piri Thomas) Snitch(Allison Van Diepen) Street Pharm(Allison Van Diepen) Emako Blues (Brenda Woods) Rooftop, Black & White, Rucker Park Setup, Rikers High (plus more) by Paul Volponi Snitch, Raven and Street Pharm by Alison Van Diepen DopeSick by Walter Dean Myers If I Grow Up, Give a Boy a Gun, Can't Get There from Here by Todd Strasser Efrain's Secret by Sofia Quintero The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman How Ya Like Me Now by Brendan Halpin Ten Mile River by Paul Griffin Hoopster by Alan Lawrence Sitomer Hip-Hop High School by Alan Lawrence Sitomer Kendra by Coe Booth Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles Rules of Attraction (a series) by Simone Elkeles The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees Durango Street by Frank Bonham Drive-by by Lynn Ewing St. Iggy by K.L. Going Monster by Walter Dean Myers Blank Confession by Pete Hautman No Choirboy by Susan Kuklin Dirt road home by Wyatt Key

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