(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
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
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The gang is fake, but the fear is real. Rhea's neighborhood is fading away--the mom-and-pop shops she grew up with forced out to make space for an artisanal kombucha brewery here, a hot-yoga studio there. And everywhere, the feeling that this place is no longer meant for her. Because while their little corner of South LA isn't perfect, to Rhea and her two best friends, it's something even more important--it's home. And it's worth protecting. But...
3) Bluescreen
Author
Series
Mirador volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Bluescreen is a stunning deluge of imagination, filled with suspense and twists and unforgettable characters. This book is just plain awesome. -James Dashner, bestselling author of The Maze Runner From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni-a smart device...
Author
Series
Mirador volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Even in a world where technology connects everyone's minds, it would seem that some secrets can still remain hidden. For all the mysteries teen hacker Marisa Carneseca has solved, one has always eluded her: When she was two years old, she was in a car accident in which she lost her arm and a mob boss's wife, Zenaida de Maldonado, lost her life. No one can tell her what she was doing in that car, or how it led to the feud between the Carnesecas and...
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Martin Luna is in deep trouble. Just months ago, a horrible tragedy took his little brother, and now it threatens to take him too. On one side are his desperate mother, a friendly teacher at Bluford High School, and a pretty girl named Vicky. On the other are his old neighborhood and his hunger for revenge. Torn between the two, Martin stands at a crossroads, with his life hanging in the balance. Which way will he go?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
8) On the edge
Author
Series
Destinos series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Maddie Diaz witnesses the murder of a homeless man by members of a gang, she tells the cops what she saw without thinking about the repercussions of snitching, but a mysterious guy named Lobo comes to her defense and is determined to take down the gang and protect her"--
9) On the hook
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hector has always minded his own business, working hard to make his way to a better life someday. He's the chess team champion, helps the family with his job at the grocery, and teaches his little sister to shoot hoops overhand. Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the Discípulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear, does nothing....
10) Party girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The death of her best friend Ana in a drive-by shooting causes fifteen-year-old Kata to question her position in the Los Angeles gang life.
13) Boulevard nights
Series
Pub. Date
©2009.
Language
English
Description
The bond between two brothers is tested when the younger one's gang is challenged by a rival gang.
14) American me
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, this is the story of a vicious Latino prison gang leader, doomed by his past to a life of harsh, unforgiving violence after his release from jail. He grows up in East Los Angeles, joins a street gang and is in prison while he is still of an age to be in high school. By the time he is back on the streets again, he is a skillful, educated criminal.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request
