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Author
Lexile measure
1310L
Language
English
Description
In Anthony Burgess?s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends? intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...
Author
Series
Schemapädagogik kompakt volume 4
Publisher
Ibidem-Verlag
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Deutsch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
The dramatic and inspiring true story of a small town minister called to help inner city kids everyone else believed were beyond hope...
David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God: go to New York City to speak to seven young gang members on trial for murder.
But something much greater was to come. Once in New York, David was inspired to stay for a lifetime of...
David Wilkerson was just a young preacher in the Pennsylvania hills when he was stunned by a new calling from God: go to New York City to speak to seven young gang members on trial for murder.
But something much greater was to come. Once in New York, David was inspired to stay for a lifetime of...
7) Lockdown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
8) Small steps
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
Publisher
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"Deborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories. Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen ("Court gives you the feeling that you...
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
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 shortlived, messy and ultimately murderous. Some of the most notorious killings of the 20th century were committed by children and it is not a new phenomenon. Mary Bell, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are infamous...
13) Correctional programs for chronic juvenile offenders: characteristics of three exemplary programs
Author
Series
Publisher
Eric Document Reproduction Service
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.