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  The Juvie Three

  by Gordon Korman

  Gecko Fosse drove the getaway car. Terence Florian ran with the worst gang in Chicago. Arjay Moran killed someone. All three boys are serving time in juvenile detention centers until they get a second chance at life in the form of Douglas Healy. A former juvenile delinquent himself, Healy is running an experimental halfway house in New York City where he wants to make a difference in the lives of kids... (more)
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  Right Behind You

  by Gail Giles

  When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret. How can Kip tell anyone that he really is--or was--a murderer?
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  Always Running

  La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

  by Luis J. Rodriguez

  By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts of street crime claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully... (more)
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  Shattering Glass

  by Gail Giles

  "Simon Glass was easy to hate....I guess, really we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him." Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the high school social ladder. Everyone picks on him -- until Rob Haynes shows up. Rob, a transfer student with charisma to spare, immediately becomes the undisputed leader of the senior class.... (more)
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  Black and White

  by Paul Volponi

  Marcus and Eddie are best friends who found the strength to break through the racial barrier. Marcus is black; Eddie is white. Stars of their school basketball team, they are true leaders who look past the stereotypes and come out on top. They are inseparable, watching each other’s backs, both on and off the basketball court. But one night—and one wrong decision—will change their lives forever. Will their... (more)
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  If I Grow Up

  by Todd Strasser

  "WHEN YOU GREW UP IN THE PROJECTS, THERE WERE NO CHOICES. NO GOOD ONES, AT LEAST." In the Frederick Douglass Project where DeShawn lives, daily life is ruled by drugs and gang violence. Many teenagers drop out of school and join gangs, and every kid knows someone who died. Gunshots ring out on a regular basis. DeShawn is smart enough to know he should stay in school and keep away from the gangs. But while his... (more)
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  If You Really Loved Me

  by Ann Rule

  THERE WAS ONLY ONE WAY TO PLEASE HER FATHER: MURDER HIS WIFE.... Ann Rule's #1 bestselling true-crime masterpiece features compelling updates to the shattering case brilliantly chronicled in If You Really Loved Me. David Brown was the consummate entrepreneur: a computer wizard and millionaire by age thirty-two. When his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept, Brown's fourteen-year-old... (more)
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  Cruel Sacrifice

  by Aphrodite Jones

  On a freezing January in 1992, five teenage girls crowded into a car. By the end of the night, only four of them were alive. The fifth had been tortured and mutilated nearly beyond recognition. Her name was Shanda Sharer; her age - twelve. When the people of Madison, Indiana heard that a brutal murder had been committed in their midst, they were stunned. Then the story became even more bizarre. The four accused... (more)
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  No Matter How Loud I Shout

  A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court

  by Edward Humes

  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Hume's offers this unforgettable odyssey through the corridors of the United States juvenile court system--the one place intended to save our children, though it seldom does. "Passionate. . . . A sad, maddening, brilliant book."--The Washington Post.
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  Cries Unheard

  Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell

  by Gitta Sereny

  What brings a child to kill another child? In CRIES UNHEARD, Gitta Sereny, one of our greatest authorities on questions of crimes and conscience, takes up the case of Mary Bell, who in 1968, at age eleven, was tried and convicted of murdering two small boys in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Twenty-seven years after her conviction, Bell agreed to talk to Sereny about her harrowing childhood, her terrible acts, her... (more)
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  True Crime: Spree Killers

  Caril

  by Ninette Beaver, B. K. Ripley, Patrick Trese

  The true story of Caril Ann Fugate, the girlfriend of -- and either the accomplice or the hostage of -- spree killer Charles Starkweather.
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  Ryan Dooley: Book 1

  Dooley Takes The Fall

  by Norah McClintock, Jacque Morris

  White Pine nominee, 2009 Spinetingler Magazine Award Nominee, 2009 A boy maybe twelve years old, on a bike, stopped next to Dooley, looked at the kid sprawled on the pavement and said, "Is he dead?" "Yeah, I think so," Dooley said. In fact, he was sure of it because there was no air going into or coming out of the lungs of the kid on the... (more)
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  Silent to the Bone

  by E. L. Konigsburg

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  Juvenile Delinquency : A Justice Perspective

  Reflecting changes in perceptions of the juvenile crime problem and changes in juvenile justice policy, the Fourth Edition incorporates nine new articles that address a range of issues facing the juvenile justice system. Like earlier editions, this revision reflects an interdisciplinary perspective and supplements general texts with in-depth coverage of specific issues. The reader will find the articles... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 10

  The Burning Soul

  by John Connolly

  Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone... (more)
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  Grace Smith: Book 5

  Sick as a Parrot

  by Liz Evans

  Adopted at birth, Hanna Conti attempts to trace her family. She turns up a mother who, 20 years earlier, was convicted of murder. Convinced that her mother is innocent, Hannah hires PI Grace Smith to prove it. Grace uncovers the story of the very messy murder of Janet Hepburn, a teacher at St. Martin’s Comprehensive, but there are a lot of people who’d rather she stopped digging. On Grace’s side (or possibly not)... (more)
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  Fiend

  The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer

  by Harold Schechter

  A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree -- the hows and whys of vicious... (more)
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  Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers (2003) (2003)

  by Carol Anne Davis

  Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Traditionally, society is used to regarding children as harmless -- but for some the age of innocence is short-lived, messy and ultimately murderous. Children Who Kill is a comprehensive new study of juvenile homicide. Carol Anne Davis sets out to explore this disturbing... (more)
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  Anton Woode

  The Boy Murderer

  by Dick Kreck

  As he sat behind his lawyer at the defendant's table in the courtroom, no one who looked at the sweet-faced boy could believe that he was guilty of what he was on trial for-shooting a man in the back. He was, after all, only eleven years old, if his mother were to be believed. So begins this true tale of juvenile crime, focusing on one incident in 1892: murder by a young child. The murder itself proves to be... (more)
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  Dovey Coe

  by Frances O'Roark Dowell

  My name is Dovey Coe and I reckon it don't matter if you like me or not. I'm here to lay the record straight, to let you know them folks saying I done a terrible thing are liars. I aim to prove it, too. I hated Parnell Caraway as much as the next person, but I didn't kill him. Dovey Coe says what's on her mind, so it's no secret that she can't stand Parnell Caraway. Parnell may be the son of the richest man in... (more)