8 Ball Chicks

Author : Gini Sikes
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307773833
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 8 Ball Chicks written by Gini Sikes and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets for defense, they initiate drive-by shootings, carry out car jackings, stomp outsiders who stumble onto or dare to enter the neighborhood, viciously retaliate against other gangs and ferociously guard their home turf. But Sikes also captures the differences that distinguish girl gangs-abortion, teen pregnancy and teen motherhood, endless beatings and the humiliation of being forced to have sex with a lineup of male gangbangers during initiation, haphazardly raising kids in a household of drugs and guns with a part-time boyfriend off gangbanging himself. Veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos following the lives of several key gang members in South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee. In 8 Ball Chicks, we discover the fear and desperate desire for respect and status that drive girls into gangs in the first place--and the dreams and ambitions that occasionally help them to escape the catch-22 of their existence.

Author : G. Sikes
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417693894
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 8 Ball Chicks written by G. Sikes and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran journalist spends a year following girl gangs--white, Black, and Latino--in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere, tracing the similarities and differences between female and male gangs

Author : Jacinta Bunnell
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604862351
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book written by Jacinta Bunnell and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven pages of feminist fun! This is a coloring book you will never outgrow. Girls Are Not Chicks is a subversive and playful way to examine how pervasive gender stereotypes are in every aspect of our lives. This book helps to deconstruct the homogeneity of gender expression in children’s media by showing diverse pictures that reinforce positive gender roles for girls. Color the Rapunzel for a new society. She now has power tools, a roll of duct tape, a Tina Turner album, and a bus pass! Paint outside the lines with Miss Muffet as she tells that spider off and considers a career as an arachnologist Girls are not chicks. Girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, healers, and superheroes.

Author : Francisco Goldman
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802144608
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Night of White Chickens written by Francisco Goldman and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the story of Roger Graetz, raised in a Boston suburb by an aristocratic Guatemalan mother, and his relationship with Flor de Mayo, the beautiful young guatemalan orphn sent by his grandmother to live with family as a maid.

Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805019421
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Whole New Ball Game written by Sue Macy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-04-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An interesting and informative look at the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that operated from 1945–1954.... A significant title." --School Library Journal, starred review

Author : Clifford R. Shaw
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607496X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jack-Roller written by Clifford R. Shaw and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 and had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a one-year sentence for burglary and jack-rolling (mugging), Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or "own story" as an important instrument of sociological research. The book remains as relevant today to the study and treatment of juvenile delinquency and maladjustment as it was when originally published in 1930.

Author : Margaret Ball
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671877552
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathemagics written by Margaret Ball and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mild-mannered suburban mom Riva Konneva is more than she seems. Riva, a warrior woman from an alternate reality, has come to the planet of the pen-pushers to give her daughter the kind of education that she never had back home. It meant that she had to learn a whole new way of fighting, with paper rather than with the weapons to which she was accustomed. The pen, as they say, is mightier than the sword. On the other hand, there are times - especially when old enemies arrive out of nowhere, intent on slaughtering one's children - when paper alone just won't do the job...

Author : Robin Jones Gunn
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 1601422393
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes! written by Robin Jones Gunn and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-tasking mama, Summer Finley has found ways to handle whatever life throws at her with grace and a grin. Until now, that is. An “abnormal” medical test result sends Summer into an emotional tailspin and prompts her to fulfill a life-long dream of “meeting” her best friend and pen pal since fourth grade, Noelle Van Zandt, face-to-face. Their blissful week together in the Netherlands finds Summer and Noelle floating down a canal in Amsterdam, visiting Corrie Ten Boom’s Hiding Place, sipping decadent Dutch cocoa in Delft, and bobbing merrily along through a sea of brilliant, spring-fresh tulips. Each day takes them further from midlife anxiety and closer to trusting God in deeper ways. When Summer finally confides in Noelle about the abnormal test results, Summer’s honesty prompts Noelle to share a long-held heartache. The two friends find they both needed to be together more than either of them realized. Could it be this adventure was tucked away in God’s imagination long before Summer bought her ticket to fly to the land of merry tulips and kalomping wooden shoes?

Author : Reymundo Sanchez
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569762856
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Q written by Reymundo Sanchez and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reymundo Sanchez, a former member of the Latin Kings street gang, recounts the experiences of Sonia Rodriguez, a young girl who became a powerful leader of the Latin Queens, and explores the devastating impact gangs can have on a young girl's life.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152054250
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesse written by Gary Soto and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.