So what are you supposed to do if all the copies are checked out? (Or what if you've already read all of them?)
Here are some fiction and nonfiction books with similar themes that you can check out from the MRC in the meantime...
- Knockout Games, by Greg Neri [fiction]
- A Good Day to Die, by James Hendricks [fiction]
- Takedown, by Allison Van Diepen [fiction]
- Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., by Luis J. Rodriguez [nonfiction]
- A Piece of Cake: A Memoir, by Cupcake Brown [nonfiction]
- Barrio Bushido, by Benjamin Bac Sierra [fiction]
- Party Girl, by Lynne Ewing [fiction]
- The Dirty South, by Alex Wheatle [fiction]
- The Barrio Kings, by William Kowalski [fiction]
- Crossroads: A Novel, by Rochan Morgan [fiction]
- The Coldest Winter Ever and Midnight: A Gangster Love Story, by Sister Souljah [fiction]
- True to the Game and Dutch, by Teri Woods [fiction]
- Yummy: The Last Days of a South Side Shorty, by Greg Neri [nonfiction graphic novel]
- Hood Rat and Gangsta, by K'wan [fiction]
- The Apostles, by Y. Blak Moore [fiction]
- 47th Street Black: A Novel, by Bayo Ojikutu [fiction]
- The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton [fiction]
- Scorpions, by Walter Dean Myers [fiction]
- Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, by Joyce Carol Oates [fiction]
- Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, by Hunter S. Thompson [nonfiction]