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Publisher
Direct Source Special Products, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The legendary story of David Wilkerson's mission from the countryside of rural Pennsylvania into the middle of the violence of gang warfare in New York's urban ghettos. Wilkerson sought to lead the embittered youth away from a life of drugs and violence. He was met with opposition, suspicion and hostility. He risked his life, persevered and won.
22) Coldwater
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Brad Lunders is a teenager forcefully abducted from his home in the middle of the night by his mother's consent to a harsh wilderness reform facility. There is no contact with the outside world and the retired war colonel in charge prides himself on breaking an inmate's spirit in order to correct delinquent behavior.
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Humanity is coming home. Weeks after landing on Earth, the hundred have managed to create a sense of order amid their wild, chaotic surroundings. But their delicate balance comes crashing down with the arrival of new dropships from space. These new arrivals are the lucky ones--back on the Colony, the oxygen is almost gone--but after making it safely to Earth, Glass's luck seems to be running out. Clarke leads a rescue party to the crash site, ready...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A thought-provoking, masterfully told work of literary journalism about a shocking crime committed by a teenager-and its even more shocking aftermath. In 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a black teenaged girl kills an elderly white woman in a robbery gone wrong. The shock and awe of the case captivates the state, whose citizens cry out for vengeance. Soon after, Paula Cooper, the fifteen-year-old killer, is sentenced to death. Indiana's minimum age for the...
25) Gridiron gang
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story....
27) Big brother
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Martial arts legend Donnie Yen stars as a former soldier recruited for his toughest mission yet, teaching a class of teen delinquents. As he kicks his way into their school and home lives, it becomes clear that his unconventional teaching style might be just what they need.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Ernest goes to camp: Ernest P. Worrell, handyman at Kamp Kikakee, achieves his greatest ambition and becomes a camp counselor--to a gang of juvenile delinquents from the Midstate Boys Detention Center.
Ernest goes to jail: Only a bumbling bank janitor like know-it-all Ernest P. Worrell could serve on a jury and end up serving time in jail in place of the criminal.
Ernest scared stupid: Ernest accidentally unleashes an evil demon from its sacred...
30) True notebooks
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the author's first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders.
Author
Language
English
Description
William Sheppard had never ventured beyond his Chicago neighborhood until, at thirteen, he was sent away to the Swope Ranch Boys' Reformatory, hundreds of miles from home, for stabbing his abusive father in the chest with a pocketknife. Buried deep in the Colorado mountains, Swope is shrouded in legend and defined by one prevailing rumor: that the boys who go in never come out the same. Despite the lack of fences or gates, the boundaries are clear:...
Author
Publisher
[Stu Campbell]
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy McIntyre, a young black kid that went from being a juvenile delinquent to starting a ranch for juvenile delinquents. You may remember Jimmy from the Continuing adventures of a young cowboy series. He was the original troubled teenager that started working on the Wilson Ranch who, with the help of Bud Wilson and Honey, got himself turned around and graduated from high school and ended up with a degree in animal science and criminology from college....
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Reunited with the survivors of the space-station Ark that fell to Earth, Clarke Griffin and her band of juvenile delinquents have faced death at every turn: from a world transformed by radiation to the fierce Grounders who somehow managed to survive it, and the double-dealing Mountain Men from the fortified Mount Weather, whose civilized environment masked a horrible secret.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jim Stark, a new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens, is still reverberating 50 years later. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers.
38) We were here
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
39) Juvenile crime
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A sociological study of the causes and rates of crimes committed by people under eighteen years of age and of how these offenders are handled by the justice system. Includes case histories.