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When seventeen-year-old Frankie Skinaway's incarcerated father and cousins try to get him involved in the First Nations Mafia, even after his mother enrolls Frankie in an alternative high school to keep him safe, Frankie has a hard choice to make.

Marcus is a star basketball and football player at his athletically prestigious Baltimore high school, with his choice of Division 1 schools clamoring to give him a scholarship--however, at the state football championship, Marcus gets in a fight. Racial tensions are high, and Marcus' anger could ruin any chance he has at a collegiate future.

When her online carelessness threatens her father's job, sixteen-year-old Sasha and her mother must move to Canada, where the promise of a fresh start for Sasha with a volunteer group called CREW turns into a nightmare when she finds out CREW is secretly a gang. Their leader, code named Master, wants to use Sasha's computer skills to steal identities and blackmail men online into giving them money. Afraid of both jail and exposure to the gang, Sasha is forced to stay and find a way to make things right on the inside.

Thirteen-year-old Trell Taylor's father, Romero Taylor, was convicted of the murder of a girl Trell's age when Trell was just a baby. Trell is determined to prove her father is innocent of the charge, but others don't want the truth revealed. Trell's efforts catch the attention of a dangerous person in her neighborhood and long-buried secrets are uncovered. Working with a lawyer and a reporter, Trell finds key pieces of evidence that were overlooked, leading to a shocking turn of events.

In 1919, Ava Navarra and Corinne Wells are best friends performing by night at the Cast Iron nightclub in Boston and conning the city's wealthy elite by day. When Ada finds herself imprisoned at Haversham Asylum, Corinne is the only one who can help her escape. But things are even more dangerous on the outside as the two face betrayal at every turn.

Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.

Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.

"Hector has always worked hard and minded his own business. He wants to be captain of his school's chess team, go to college, and help his family make their way to a better life someday. Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the Disc?pulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear, does nothing. From that day forward, Hector's death hangs over his head every time he leaves the house. He tries to fade into the shadows, to drop off Joey's radar, to become no one. But when a fight between Chavo and Hector's brother Fili escalates, Hector is left with no choice but to take a stand. The violent confrontation lands Hector in a reform school where he has to live side-by-side with his enemy, Joey. There, it's up to Hector to choose whether he's going to lose himself to anger and seek revenge, or get back to the hard work of living"--Provided by publisher.

"There are numerous underground organizations of crime hidden from the public. These criminals work diligently to keep their crimes secret in order to successfully execute their deceitful and dangerous missions. Through this . . . text, readers are given an in-depth look at secretive subjects such as organized crime, corruption in politics, fraud schemes, phishing and spam, and the drug trade"--Amazon.

In 1970s northern California, fifteen-year-old RJ Armante must fight to save himself and his disabled brother from the Blackjacks gang, and free his hometown, Arcangel, from its past.