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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. Two rival gangs -- the "haves" & "have-nots" -- fight it out on the streets of an Oklahoma city. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world....
Author
Series
Precinct 11 volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boone Drake is a young cop rising through the ranks in Chicago-- until everything goes horribly wrong. His personal life destroyed and his career and future in jeopardy, Boone buries himself in guilt and bitterness. Face-to-face with the most vicious gang leader Chicago has seen in decades, he begins to realize that God is a God of second chances... and can forgive the worst of crimes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
440 p. ;
Language
Español
Description
al resto de los chicos del vecindario vive en un barrio obrero del Glasgow de la era post-Thatcher, en el seno de una familia protestante: sin padre, con una madre alcohólica y un hermano que representa todo lo que él odia. En un ambiente masculinizado, rodeado de paro y peleas callejeras, solo cuenta con el apoyo y el cuidado de su hermana, Jodie. Tras un altercado familiar, su madre decide enviar a Mungo de pesca con dos desconocidos de Alcohólicos...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, he believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord with his gangs, pursues the rebels ruthlessly...
Author
Series
Battle dragons volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
143 pages; with color illustrations and photographs, 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Part of the visual history series, American Outlaws is a riveting account of the criminal underworld of the US. Featuring the most notorious thieves, mobsters, murderers, and gangs - spanning from the Wild West to the Prohibition - you'll meet key figures in crime history that include Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid, Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and other famous names. From the top 10 bank heists and the five major crime families that are still operating...
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem ... but not all goes to plan.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
Author
Series
Slash and Pecos volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
His wicked ways mostly behind him, reformed bank robber Jimmy "Slash" Braddock is getting hitched to his sweetheart. But before the honeymoon, Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. "Bleed-'Em-So" Bledsoe needs Slash and his former partner-in-crime, Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker, to don a couple of deputy marshal badges and saddle up for a trip to Nebraska. Seems the town of Harveyville has fallen prey to a trio of murderous badmen blasting away up and down Main...
12) Guns akimbo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miles's nerdy existence as a video game developer takes a dramatic turn when he inadvertently gets caught up as the next contestant with SKIZM, an underground gang livestreaming real-life death matches. While Miles excels at running away from everything, that won't help him outlast Nix, a killer at the top of her game.
14) Crimson summer
Author
Series
Apocalypse Cult series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
They're not going down without a fight.
When FDLE special agent Amy Larson discovers a small horse figurine amid the bloody aftermath of a gang massacre in the Everglades, she recognizes it immediately. The toy is the calling card of the apocalypse cult that Amy and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, have been investigating, and it can only mean one thing: this wasn't an isolated skirmish—it was the beginning of a war.
As tensions...
15) West Side story
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
16) Fire and bones
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Always apprehensive about working fire scenes, Tempe is called to Washington, DC, to analyze the victims of a deadly blaze and sees her misgivings justified. The devastated building is in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood with a colorful past and present, and Tempe becomes suspicious about the property's ownership when she delves into its history. The pieces start falling into place strangely and quickly, and, sensing a good story, Tempe teams with a new...
17) Desolation road
Author
Series
Torpedo ink volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Take the ride of your life with the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club in this thrilling romance novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.
Torpedo Ink is Aleksei "Absinthe" Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family—his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can...
Torpedo Ink is Aleksei "Absinthe" Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family—his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can...
18) The Jackals
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
485 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With Apaches on the prod, ex-cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, bounty hunter Jed Breen, and ex-Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch take shelter in a West Texas way station--with a hot-as-a-pistol female bound for the gallows, a spiteful newspaper editor, and a coward with $50,000 who offers them five grand to deliver his blood-soaked sash to his wife. Turns out, Indians might be the least of the problems for the trio soon to be known as the Jackals. The loot...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 24
Language
English
Description
"This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One...
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