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
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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