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The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever. Puffin is proud to publish...

When Cody and his friends accept a challenge from a local gang to steal a park bench, their main concern is keeping themselves on the gang's good side. But Cody quickly learns that the theft is no harmless prank.

An orphaned boy in present-day Senegal must decide between doing what is right and what is easy in order to honor a promise made to his dying father to keep their family together in the face of malicious gang members.

When the World Peace Alliance, the new world government, declares Christianity a crime punishable by death, high-schooler Patch must make a tough decision--give up his life for his cause, or renouce his faith and lose his soul.

Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Casey Jones remember the first time they met Angel when she was a part of a street gang, the Purple Dragons.

While surfing in California, a surfer disappears and the reader must investigate the disappearance, a search that leads to a gang called the Surf Monkeys.

When Hound Dog moves to the country, he feels pressure to join the Mean Dog Gang, but with the help of his old friend Jojo he remains true to himself.

"In order to stop the destructive forces of gentrification, three best friends use social media to create a fake gang and get justice for their South L.A. community"--

Mexican American middle-schooler Manny finds himself caught between going along with his friends who are set on forming a gang and cutting his ties to them and following his own inclination to stay out of trouble.

Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.