Seventeen-year-old Miguel Ángel is an aspiring boxer who avoids gang violence by working out every day with the Alisal Boxing Club. Can he avoid succumbing to the gangbangers in his neighborhood and have a successful relationship with his beautiful girlfriend Britney? Can their love survive all of the conflict in their lives?

Xavier decides it is time to quit the gang and return to the track team, but with his brother Hugo involved, things get complicated.

With the help of a dog named Sophie, eleven-year-old boys from different time periods work together to stop the activities of a gang.

Recovering from a shooting and stereotyped as a Chicano gangbanger, fourteen-year-old Victor Reyes loves reading books, has a genius girlfriend and an art teacher who mentors and encourages him to apply to art schools, but Victor cannot seem to overcome society's expectations for him.

After learning of his parents' plans to divorce and moving with his mother and sister to a rough urban neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Toby and his new friend, a homeless man, become magically connected to an ancient Iroquois Indian hero and help the community stand up to a violent gang.

After graduating from his fifth grade class in the Bronx, Enoch looks forward to spending time with his best friend Spence, but must instead cope with grief, gang violence, and the arrival from Puerto Rico of his half-brother Miguel.

Badly injured, fourteen-year-old Blade must continue to use his exceptional "street smarts" and waning strength to outsmart dangerous thugs while he considers surrendering to the police to face the consequences of a past he has tried to forget.

"En 1893, las calles de Nueva York están llenas de vida y también de peligros. Si eres un repartidor de periódicos, como Maks Geless, de 13 años, más te vale tener cuidado con Bruno, el líder de una banda de rufianes con malas intenciones. Convertido en detective, Maks deberá luchar contra poderosas fuerzas para defender a su familia"--Publisher's website.

Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his loyal dog Rowdy for company. He has stayed alive for two winters-hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders, an armed and dangerous gang that controls the north, led by a ruthless man named Ramage. But Finn's isolation is shattered when a girl runs onto the beach....

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.