An assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.

Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.

The Linden Triangle: Linden Avenue and Linden Place, Hempstead, Long Island. At this blighted intersection, seemingly forgotten by the middle and upper class communities that surround it, the dream of suburban comfort and safety has devolved into a nightmare of flying bullets and bloodshed. Here, a war between the Bloods and Crips has torn a once-peaceful neighborhood apart. The book tells the true story of one year in the life of a suburban village-turned-war-zone....

"Elevated to the highest position, the saints have reached presidential status. Having proved their mettle against the rival gangs of Steelport it's now time to crank things up to a galactic level"--Container.

The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called Judges who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.

Discusses the problem of coping with increasing violence in the community and in the schools.

First feature: Musical story of a young priest who saves a mortgage-ridden parish from financial collapse, and wins over a sidewalk gang of neighborhood toughs along the way. Second feature: Song-and-dance man opens a Connecticut inn with his partner, only to be saved from ruin by his former associates.

A series of events which is believed to be the Rapture throws the world into chaos after a man foils an attempted robbery by a biker gang known as the Barbarians.

In the desolate near future, road cop Mad Max tires of chasing after vicious roving gangs and quits. When his wife and child are murdered by a motorcycle gang he returns to seek revenge.

With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...