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(FIC Butterworth, W.) LeRoy and the old Man. After witnessing a murder by one of Chicago’s toughest gangs, LeRoy flees his native city to hide at the home of his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi and must decide if he will risk his life to testify. (FIC Oates) Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang.The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls are joined in a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world that seems made to denigrate and destroy them (FIC Garland, S.) Shadow of The Dragon.Sixteen year-old Danny Vo feels caught between two different worlds: he fits in with his American friends, yet they don’t understand his traditional Vietnamese home life. Danny must also contend with another dangerous gang—white supremacist skinheads. (FIC Hinton) The Outsiders S.E. Hinton. The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents’ death and their quest for identity among conflicting values of their adolescent society. (FIC Myers, W.) Scorpions Walter D. Myers. After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun — until a tragedy occurs. (FIC Bunting, E.) Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island Eve Bunting. When he offends the toughest gang in his San Francisco school, Danny tries to elude them by going to Alcatraz only to find himself and a Park Service employee trapped by the gang in an old prison cell block. (FIC Coburn, J.) Prep Jake Coburn .
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