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1) Holes
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Language
English
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The idea that many teens have of gangs is one that is outdated and often influenced by television and movies. But this "hidden story" of gangs and gang violence delves deeper into gangs, breaking down some of the stereotypes and showing readers some of the reasons why gangs exist and what is being done to combat some of the violence. All types of gangs are explored, going beyond the basic ideas and into the lesser known elements of gang violence.
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Scared straight!: Their crimes included assault and battery, arson, auto theft, breaking and entering, and possesion and distribution of narcotics. Although they were still minors, these juvenile delinquents were already on a one-way path to doing hard time. This film recounts the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the Rahway maximum security prison with the most dangerous criminals New Jersey had to offer. The convicts gave the youths...
7) Holes
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
9) Boot camp
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.
10) Alpha dog
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In a story inspired by true events, a group of teens from the suburbs commits an impulsive crime which spirals further out of control as the police close in.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a party gets raided by the police, four teenagers who barely know each other find themselves on the run in a car with a trunk full of stolen drugs--and in the next few hours they will make decisions that will determine the course of the rest of their lives.
13) Scar Island
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
14) Band of the hand
Language
English
Formats
Description
While serving time in a grueling rehab program in Florida's Everglades, five young felons bond together to form an unlikely union. When they return to Miami's dangerous ghetto, the five former criminals wage a lethal war on the drug kingpins.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After getting in trouble with the law, a group of wayward teens are given an ultimatum: serve time in juvenile detention for their crimes or walk the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across Spain over the summer holidays with a pair of court-appointed counselors. Although they come from diverse backgrounds, the unlikely friends try to make the best of their situation. The pilgrims grow closer on their journey, but they may not make it to their destination--the...
17) Riding Chance
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Since his mother died thirteen-year-old Troy has been skipping school and hanging out with the wrong crowd, and now he and his friend Foster have been sentenced to work in the local Philadelphia stables; at first he is apprehensive around the horses, but soon he bonds with a mare named Chance, and discovers the sport of polo--but also makes some new enemies.
18) Perfect liars
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Andrea Faraday, a society girl with a sketchy past, leads a crew of juvie kids in using their criminal skills for good"--
19) Harry Brown
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend is beaten to death by a local gang, Harry Brown takes the skills he learned as a Royal Marine and doles out his own brand of justice.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In his family's new rental home on a down-at-the heels street in sun-beaten Miami -- with dog-eating alligators in the canal out back, a dangerously attractive girl across the road, and the unhinged Pagoda family next door -- fourteen-year-old Jack is adrift, losing a sense of who he is and what he's all about. Which is why he ends up trying to morph himself into someone he's not, that someone being sixteen-year-old Gary Pagoda, a.k.a. Scary Gary,...
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