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301) Dirt road home
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At Hellenweiler, a reformatory for second-offenders, fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell will soon be free if he can avoid the gang violence of his fellow inmates, but the real enemy may lie elsewhere.
307) D-frag!: Volume 8
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D-frag! volume 1
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Kazama Kenji thinks he's a delinquent. He's got the look, the style and the attitude to match-he even has a second-rate entourage of sorts. Deep down, however, Kazama is a good-hearted kid who finds himself and his loyal gang in over their heads when they stumble upon the Game Creation Club. The club's formidable members, Chitose, Sakura, Minami, and Roka, are four girls who he might actually be attracted to if they weren't so freaking weird. The...
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Teen delinquent magical girls fight patriarchy and systemic oppression in this all-ages romp from Black Mask Studios. Divya, Kai, Noemi, Saba, and Emma ditch detention and stumble upon an insidious social conspiracy that makes them question everything they thought they knew. Combining punk rock ethos with manga aesthetic, Lelay and Rex explore teen angst and class struggle with a healthy dose of love and laughs.--
309) Wind breaker: 1
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Wind breaker (Manga) volume 1
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An adrenaline-filled manga set in a high school for delinquents who are now heroes protecting their town. A fierce, new student arrives at the school determined to fight his way to the top and become the strongest of them all. Haruka Sakura wants nothing to do with weaklings--he's only interested in the strongest of the strong. He's just started at Furin High School, a school of degenerates known only for their brawling strength--strength they use...
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For five seasons, our heroes did whatever it took to survive on Earth... and nothing worked. Their inability to overcome the instict to fight caused the destruction of the planet. Now, after 125 years in cryosleep traveling through the stars, our heroes wake up to a new home - a final gift from their dearly departed friend Monty - a place where they can try again. Their task is simple: do better. Be the good guys. With this credo in mind, Clarke and...
311) Niños en el crimen
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"¿Qué oculta el alma del niño asesino?", se pregunta Julio Scherer García en estas páginas llenas de violencia y sufrimiento, resultado del trabajo de reportero que realizó en la Comunidad de Tratamiento Especializado para Adolescentes en el Distrito Federal. A través de entrevistas y documentos penales, el autor narra las impactantes historias de una generación perdida que parece no tener futuro y que ha sustituido los juegos infantiles por...
313) Communities that care: building community engagement and capacity to prevent youth behavior problems
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Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functional models exist. In 'Communities that Care', four leading experts on prevention describe one such system to illustrate how communities effectively engage in prevention activities. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based...
314) Tuff turf
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The new kid in school tangles with a local gang and becomes the lone target of revenge. When he falls for the leader's girlfriend, the situation turns from dangerous to deadly.
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Juvenile Offenders and Guns explores how and why twenty-five incarcerated young men of color acquired and used guns, how guns made them feel, and how they felt about the violence in which they participated as well as the violence to which they were exposed as victims and witnesses. Through their narratives, patterns emerge of boys attempting to become men in homes headed by mothers who struggled financially, the multiple attractions of the street...
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The first program in a series of 48 movies that helped change America. During the first decades of the 20th century no issue was too controversial for movies ... from prohibition to abortion, unions, atheism, the vote for women, worker safety, juvenile justice, homelessness and immigration, these films became the catalyst for social change.
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