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Mondays; 5 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (HALL)
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Esta vez, se hará justicia real.
Jojo ha vuelto de la cárcel, y la gente está tensa y temerosa de nuevo. Se preguntan si sus amigos comenzarán a mostrarse otra vez. Se preguntan si un día estarán caminando por la calle y se encontrarán con Jojo, y Jojo les dará una mala actitud o los empujará, sólo por diversión. Los amigos de Jojo tienen una manera de hacer que sea difícil —muy difícil— a las personas que deciden presentar cargos...
2) Bang
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Quentin and JD have been friends forever. Hanging out together, Quentin learns JD has a gun, and when they are caught in a robbery, JD uses the gun—with deadly results. Trying to cover up the crime and get away with it, Quentin gets in even deeper than he expected and learns that the only person he can trust is himself. Especially when his freedom—and his future—is at stake.
3) Cleanup
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Connie Suarez, downsized from her job as a legal secretary, is working as a maid. She's getting used to picking up after people and putting their lives in order. But she is not prepared for the mess that awaits her when she arrives at work one morning to find her employer dead on the floor of his bedroom.
Connie's co-worker Maria, an illegal alien from Colombia, quickly becomes the prime suspect in his murder. When Maria begs her for help, Connie...
4) Guilty
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Finn watches in horror as his stepmother is gunned down in front of his house. His father reacts and kills the gunman. When Finn learns that the killer is the same man who admitted to killing his birth mother years before, he is shocked and wants to know if this is more than a terrible coincidence. At the police station, he meets Lila, daughter of the killer, and they strike up a wary friendship. Both of them are desperate to find the truth. What...
5) One Way
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Riding the wrong way up a one-way street, Kenzie takes his eyes off the road and hits a pedestrian. And not just any pedestrian. It’s his ex-girlfriend, Stassi. Was this a freak accident? Or was it something more sinister? When the police talk to him, it becomes clear that everyone thinks he had a reason to hurt her. Kenzie ends up in a fight to prove his innocence, even as he begins to question it himself.
6) Masked
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Daniel enters a convenience store on a secret mission, he doesn't expect to run into anyone he knows. That would ruin everything. And when Rosie enters the same store to see what her father wants, she's hoping to make a quick getaway with her waiting boyfriend. All Daniel and Rosie want is to get in and out without any trouble. Neither expects what happens next. A masked man enters the store. "This is a stickup," he announces. He has a gun and...
7) Snitch
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Josh had been living in a group home after being ratted out by Scott, his one-time best friend. Now he has been sent to a class designed to teach him to deal with his anger. When an old enemy continues to push his buttons and Scott appears to be up to his old tricks, Josh struggles to control his temper. Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, it will take all of his new-found strength to keep his cool—and his freedom.
8) Tell
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When his stepfather, Phil, is shot dead in an apparent robbery, David becomes the prime suspect. Where was David that night, and what does he know about Phil? David has figured out the truth about his stepfather, and the day his kid brother died. What will it take for him to tell? And how did he know?
9) My Side
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When quiet, shy Addie is lured into the woods, she is convinced she is going to die. She quickly finds out that there are worse things than terror—things like betrayal at the hands of her best friend and public humiliation in front of the entire school. Neely, Addie's ex-best friend, is tired of the same old life and the same old friends. She is ready to take some chances to re-invent herself. Is she also ready to win new friends at the expense...
10) Back
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Jojo’s back, released from jail, and people are tense and afraid all over again. They wonder if they’ll be walking down the street one day and they’ll run into Jojo and Jojo will give them attitude or shove them around, just for fun. Those people just wish Jojo would go away and never come back. Then there are the people who wish something bad would happen to Jojo. Something really bad. Ardell Withrow is one of those people.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Josh había estado viviendo en un hogar de grupo después de ser delatado por Scott, su alguna vez mejor amigo. Ahora se ha ido a vivir con su hermano y prepotente cuñada y ha sido enviado a una clase diseñada para enseñarle a lidiar con su ira. Cuando un viejo enemigo continúa empujando sus botones y Scott aparece con sus viejos trucos, Josh se esfuerza por controlar su temperamento. Enmarcado por un crimen que no cometió, llevará toda su fuerza...
12) Down
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Remy has just been released from juvenile detention and is back in his old neighborhood. He went away because he severely assaulted a guy who insulted his girlfriend, Asia. As a white boy dating an immigrant, Remy has had to withstand a lot of the racism that exists in the inner-city—from strangers, his family and even the police. When the white kids and the “outsiders” start scrapping over the local basketball court, Remy is caught between...
13) Picture This
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Ethan lives in a foster home, struggling to put his life on the right track. Involved in a photography program for at-risk kids, he finds himself threatened again and again by someone who wants his camera. What does Ethan know? And what is on his camera that someone is willing to kill for? Struggling to stay out of trouble and solve the mystery, he discovers he has all the answers, he just has to figure out the questions.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Ethan lives in a foster home, struggling to put his life on the right track. Involved in a photography program for at-risk kids, he finds himself threatened again and again by someone who wants his camera. What does Ethan know? And what is on his camera that someone is willing to kill for? Struggling to stay out of trouble and solve the mystery, he discovers he has all the answers, he just has to figure out the questions.
15) She Said/She Saw
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Tegan was in the backseat when her two best friends were gunned down in front of her. Was it an argument over drugs? An ongoing feud? Or something more random? Tegan says she didn't see who did it. Or know why. Nobody will believe her. Not the police; not her friends; not the families of the victims; and not even Kelly, her own sister. Is she afraid that the killer will come back? Or does she know more than she is saying? Shunned at school and feeling...
16) Taken
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Two girls have recently disappeared near the town where Stephanie lives. She is concerned but is sure that it could never happen to her. But then it does. Tied up and alone far from home, she manages to escape her captor and run for her life. But she is in the middle of nowhere, with no food, no shelter and no way home. And worst of all, she has run away before, so she is sure that the police will not take her disappearance seriously. She will need...
17) I, Witness
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a dark back alley, Boone and Andre witness a violent murder, and agree not to mention it. But the killers have different ideas and come after Boone and his friends, killing two of them. Boone is desperate to save himself but realizes to do so he will need to face the violent act in his past that continues to haunt him. Told in Norah McClintock's trademark suspenseful style and with spare black-and-white illustrations from Mike Deas, this compelling...
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