Books about drugs and gangs
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Always Running: La Vida Loca Gang Days in L.A.
Boy Kills Man
Buried Onions by Gary Soto
Chinese playground: a memoir by Bill Lee
Do or Die by Léon Bing
Drive-by by Lynne Ewing
East Side stories: gang life in East L.A. by Joseph Rodríguez
8 ball chicks: a year in the violent world of girl gangsters by Gini Sikes
From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugs by Andrew Weil and Winifred Rosen
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Monster: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Party Girl by Lynne Ewing