Lyons Regional Library

Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.

All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.

"Bree turned the knob of apartment 4A. The door was unlocked. It was empty inside. Andre looked around. "This is where we used to live."

Seventeen-year-old Daniel's new girlfriend says she loves him, that she'd do anything for him. She makes Daniel feel like anything is possible. So he ignores her lies. It's not like Cyn is a bad person. Then Daniel finds out that Cyn has been using him to move drugs across the border. Foolproof is a tough book about the consequences of gang life that asks readers to consider the line between taking risks and taking lives. Daniel crosses that line...

"Seventeen-year-old Diego wants nothing to do with his drug-dealing brother Ernesto. Their small Mexican town of Coraz©đn de la Fuente has been devastated by the drug trade. When Ernesto cannot make a drug run for a brutal gang, Diego must make the most difficult decision of his life. He soon finds himself caught in a web from which it is impossible to escape without endangering his life and that of his entire family"--Page 4 of cover.