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  • Hurricane power
    Author:
    Brouwer, Sigmund
    Summary:

    When David's family moves from northern Ontario to Miami, Florida, it takes him less than a day to discover how out of place he is in his new neighborhood. He joins his school's track team, hoping to make new friends, but soon he is...
  • Hunted on the fens
    Author:
    Ellis, Joy.
    Summary:

    DI Nikki Galena faces her toughest challenge yet. Can she save her team and herself from a cruel and determined adversary who will stop at nothing to harm Nikki and her colleagues? First she must work out who wants revenge against her...
  • Grand Menteur
    Author:
    Ah-Sen, Jean Marc
    Summary:

    The secret world of Mauritian street-gangs is not for the faint of heart. Fraught with peril and mischief, its inner workings are a mystery to the daughter of one of its most valued members: Serge, the Grand Menteur. A liar of...
  • Gangs : a Groundwork guide
    Author:
    Swift, Richard
    Summary:

    A Booklist Editors’ Choice and a Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book Street gangs have exploded worldwide. Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style, the unspoken threat -- it's all just around the corner in...
  • Fortune : the lost decades of Uncle Chow Tung
    Author:
    Hamilton, Ian
    Summary:

    Hong Kong, 1995. Two years before Hong Kong is to be returned to the People’s Republic of China, the Communist government has its eye on the New Territories, and tensions are running high among the triads. A turf war breaks out in Macau...
  • Foolproof
    Author:
    Tullson, Diane
    Summary:

    When Daniel falls for the hottest girl in school, he ends up unwittingly running drugs across the border.
  • Feral
    Author:
    Cooke, Bev
    Summary:

    She lives in fear -- of the two-legs, of the noisy, massive trains that scream in and out of the station, of cats and rats and dogs and the dark of the tunnels. She lives in the subway, where the hard shoes kick her ribs, where shrill...
  • February's son
    Author:
    Parks, Alan
    Summary:

    A man hangs himself in a neighborhood chapel. Bodies of young girls are being found in canals and rivers across the city with high levels of Mandrax in their bloodstream. McCoy is asked to watch over a colleague's niece, who has left...
  • Fate : An Uncle Chow Tung Novel
    Author:
    Hamilton, Ian
    Summary:

    Hong Kong, 1970. The Dragon Head (also known as the Mountain Master) of the Fanling Triad has died and there is a struggle to replace him among senior members of the gang. Normally, the Deputy Mountain Master is next in line, but this...
  • Down
    Author:
    McClintock, Norah
    Summary:

    Remy has just been released from juvenile detention and is back in his old neighborhood. He went away because he severely assaulted a guy who insulted his girlfriend, Asia. As a white boy dating an immigrant, Remy has had to withstand a...
  • Daisy de Melker : hiding among killers in the city of gold
    Author:
    Botha, Ted.
    Summary:

    Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn't get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she...
  • Crime on the fens : DI Nikki Galena, book 1
    Author:
    Ellis, Joy
    Summary:

    DI Nikki Galena: A police detective with nothing left to lose, she's seen a girl die in her arms, and her daughter will never leave the hospital again. She's got tough on the criminals she believes did this to her. Too tough. And now...
  • Creeboy
    Author:
    Wouters, Teresa
    Summary:

    Set in the 2000s on the fictional reserve of Pâ-ko-sey-i-mo-min, 16-year-old Josh "Creeboy" navigates the world of Indigenous gang life. His dad, the leader of one of the gangs on his reserve, is in jail, and his older brother Darion...
  • City of orphans
    Author:
    Avi
    Summary:

    In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
  • Black alley
    Author:
    Segura, Mauricio
    Summary:

    In the Cote-de-Negre area of Montreal, the first stop for many new immigrants, live people of more than 100 nationalities, Marcelo, the sensitive son of Chilean refugees, and Cleo, a shy boy from Haiti, find friendship on the track,...
  • Benched
    Author:
    Watson, Cristy
    Summary:

    When Cody and his friends accept a challenge from a local gang to steal a park bench, their main concern is keeping themselves on the gang’s good side. But Cody quickly learns that the theft is no harmless prank. Not only are he and his...
  • Barrio kings
    Author:
    Kowalski, William, Wright, Braden
    Summary:

    Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend...
  • Bangers
    Author:
    Phillips, Gary
    Summary:

    The five members of Tactical Resources Against Street Hoodlums are just as vicious as the thugs they butt heads with. They are on the right side of the law, yet too much power leads to corruption -- and these officers will bend or break...
  • Back
    Author:
    McClintock, Norah
    Summary:

    Jojo's back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. They wonder if his friends will start showing up again. They wonder if they'll be walking down the street one day and they'll run into Jojo and Jojo will...
  • An element of risk : A Jack Taggart Mystery
    Author:
    Easton, Don
    Summary:

    Taggart takes on gangs armed with sophisticated weapons who are battling for control and spreading terror in British Columbia. The twelfth Jack Taggart Mystery sees criminal gangs armed with sophisticated weapons battling for control...

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