Dead End Kids exposes both the depravity and the humanity in gang life through the eyes of a teenaged girl named Cara, a member of a Kansas City gang. In this shocking yet compassionate account, Mark Fleisher shows how gang girls’ lives are shaped by poverty, family disorganization, and parental neglect.

Teenage Wasteland provides memorable portraits of "rock and roll kids" and shrewd analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. A powerful indictment of the often manipulative media coverage of youth crises and so-called alternative programs designed to help "troubled" teens, Teenage Wasteland draws new conclusions and presents solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia's dead end kids. "A powerful book."—Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times Book Review "[Gaines] sheds light on a poorly understood world and raises compelling questions about what society might do to help this alienated group of young people."—Ann Grimes, Washington Post Book World "There is no comparable study of teenage suburban culture . . . and very few ethnographic inquiries written with anything like Gaines's native gusto or her luminous eye for detail."—Andrew Ross, Transition "An outstanding case study. . . . Gaines shows how teens engage in cultural production and how such social agency is affected by economic transformations and institutional interventions."—Richard Lachman, Contemporary Sociology "The best book on contemporary youth culture."—Rolling Stone

A group of friends lose one of their own under mysterious circumstances and set out to solve the mystery. It's 1999. Ben, Muprhy, Tank, and Amanda are four screwed-up kids from broken homes, but they have... had each other. When Ben is murdered, Murphy and his friends set out to find who killed him and find themselves in the cross-hairs!

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.

The Runaways, a group of friends whose parents were all super-powered villains, start a new life in New York City, where they become involved with Kingpin, a powerful and evil crime boss, and are transported back in time to 1907.

Meet and become friends with many of the actors from the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys! Since he began collecting Movie Memorabilia on the Dead End Kids in 1964, author Richard Roat has had the great fortune to develop personal relationships with David Gorcey, Stanley Clements, Gabe Dell, Bernard Punsly, Huntz Hall, Billy Benedict, Frankie Thomas, Eddie Le Roy, Brandy Gorcey (daughter of Leo Gorcey), Gary Hall (son of Huntz Hall), and Leo Gorcey Jr. (son of Leo Gorcey). This book draws upon those acquaintances and his talking with Billy Halop, Bennie Bartlett, Johnny Duncan, Ward Wood, Dick Chandlee, Eugene Francis, Harris Berger, Charles Peck, Ronald Sinclair, and more! Lavished with many photos from the films from the author's personal collection, this is one book you'll need to have in your collection, tough guy!

Tony estaba ancioso por superación, esto para poder ayudarle a su madre, quién era una madre soltera, a salir de la incertidumbre de la pobreza en la que la vida la tenia sumergida, este logra que sus tios por parte de su padre, le tiendan una mano para continuar con sus estudios superiores, en donde se enamora de Lorena, quién proviene de una familia con mejores comodidades que tony, razón por la que dicha relación no es aceptada, y aunque tony opta por ir a pedir el consentimiento de los padres de la muchacha, este es rechazado, por lo tanto no existe otra opción más que abandonar sus estudios superiores y escaparse con Lorena quién se encuentra sufriendo las mismas consecuencias que tony por vivir un amor prohivido, ya que debido a la misma relación con tony, sus padres se niegan a continuar dandole educación. Los padres de la chica no se dan por vencidos y aunque hay una vida de por medio, estos logran separarlos definitivamente, ella lo abandona, mientras se embarca con destino hacia Estados Unidos, terminando ella en Los Angeles, EE.UU. y tony en Boston, MA. en donde tony tiene que sufrir las consecuencias de la perdida de su grande amor incluyendo a su adorada hija como tambien todos sus anhelos y sueños que se habia creado, de algún dia salir todo un profesional de la universidad y termina convirtiendose en un alcoholico, en donde todo lo que intenta es acabar con su propia vida, mas sin embargo esto no sucede y comienza con su etapa de recuperación y el resultado de esto es poner en papel las esperiencias vividas para habrirle asi, los ojos a los demas.