Books about drugs and gangs

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