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1) Holes
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Scared straight!: Their crimes included assault and battery, arson, auto theft, breaking and entering, and possesion and distribution of narcotics. Although they were still minors, these juvenile delinquents were already on a one-way path to doing hard time. This film recounts the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the Rahway maximum security prison with the most dangerous criminals New Jersey had to offer. The convicts gave the youths...
7) Holes
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
8) Boot camp
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.
10) Benny's video
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a party gets raided by the police, four teenagers who barely know each other find themselves on the run in a car with a trunk full of stolen drugs--and in the next few hours they will make decisions that will determine the course of the rest of their lives.
12) Alpha dog
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In a story inspired by true events, a group of teens from the suburbs commits an impulsive crime which spirals further out of control as the police close in.
13) Scar Island
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After getting in trouble with the law, a group of wayward teens are given an ultimatum: serve time in juvenile detention for their crimes or walk the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across Spain over the summer holidays with a pair of court-appointed counselors. Although they come from diverse backgrounds, the unlikely friends try to make the best of their situation. The pilgrims grow closer on their journey, but they may not make it to their destination--the...
15) Band of the hand
Language
English
Formats
Description
While serving time in a grueling rehab program in Florida's Everglades, five young felons bond together to form an unlikely union. When they return to Miami's dangerous ghetto, the five former criminals wage a lethal war on the drug kingpins.
17) Riding Chance
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Since his mother died thirteen-year-old Troy has been skipping school and hanging out with the wrong crowd, and now he and his friend Foster have been sentenced to work in the local Philadelphia stables; at first he is apprehensive around the horses, but soon he bonds with a mare named Chance, and discovers the sport of polo--but also makes some new enemies.
18) Perfect liars
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Andrea Faraday, a society girl with a sketchy past, leads a crew of juvie kids in using their criminal skills for good"--
19) Harry Brown
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend is beaten to death by a local gang, Harry Brown takes the skills he learned as a Royal Marine and doles out his own brand of justice.
20) Come on children
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in the early 1970s, Come on children presents an experiment in which ten teenagers aged thirteen to nineteen (including a young Alex Lifeson of the rock band Rush) leave home and school to live together on a farm.
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