Everything you need to understand or teach Babylon Boyz by Jess Mowry.
A small group of boys—they call themselves "homeys" and deny that they are a gang—struggle to survive amid poverty, drug abuse, and the fear of deadly violence.
They try to live honest, moral lives, even while carrying guns and knives for protection. When the local crack dealer is chased by rogue cops and ditches his newly purchased bag of cocaine, the boys are placed in an intense moral dilemma...