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5) Razorhurst
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After the death of their Super Villain parents, five teenagers are on the run. Nico, Karolina, Gert, Chase and Molly are now in survival mode, hiding out in an abandoned hospital and trying to regain a sense of normalcy. But Super Heroes don't get to be normal. When the Runaways try to rescue a teenage girl from becoming a human sacrifice, their mission gets intercepted by a bunch of punks dressed up as the Pride, aka their parent's former coven."...
9) Illusive
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a vaccine accidentally creates superpowers in a small percentage of the population, seventeen-year-old Ciere, an illusionist, teams up with a group of fellow high-class, super-powered thieves to steal the vaccine's formula while staying one step ahead of mobsters and deadly government agents"--
13) Boy kills man
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Colombian city.
Author
Series
Birthright ; 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.
15) See no evil
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nettie's sheltered and privileged life changes after her beloved tutor mysteriously disappears and Nettie, aided by the son of a household employee, begins to learn the truth about her father, whose wealth began with trafficking in illegal aliens.
16) Firebug
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ava, a contract killer who can start fires with her mind, hits the road with her friends, desperately trying to escape the Coterie, a magical mafia, while keeping the murder to a minimum after she's asked to kill a family friend by Venus, who killed Ava's mother.
17) Ink & ashes
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fiancee Annie insists on investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is involved.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again.
20) Latitude zero
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tessa, an aspiring investigative journalist, travels to Ecuador as she investigates the sudden death of young cycling superstar Juan Carlos Macias-León at a charity bike ride.
