Daughter Oh My Daughter - Mildred Mesurac Jeffrey

An absorbing novel. Nothing since 'The Blackboard Jungle' has so stirred the reality of life in New York's slumland.

MAYFLOWER DELL 1670

FIRST PRINTING MAY 1966

LONDON, UK

The Girl...Natividad-Puerto Rican, black-eyed, feline, sensitive, savage; but loyal.

The Boy...Jose, teenage gang-leader-He wanted her for her budding breasts, and her sleek black hair. But most of all to win a five dollar bet.

The Mother...A prostitute-She wanted her daughter to learn the same trade and there-by increase the family income.

The Teacher...had learned to walk through the slum canyons, but she could not blind herself to the misery and violence in her own classroom.

An absorbing, colourful novel 'Intensely Dramatic'

The Losers - Clifford Irving

A REALISTIC NOVEL OF YOUTH IN REVOLT

POPULAR LIBRARY GIANT G311

FIRST PRINTING FEBRUARY 1959

NEW YORK, USA

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY COWARD-MCCANN OCTOBER 1957

THRILL CRAZED

This tense novel explores the inside-out world of those desperate youngsters who try every experiment to fill up their empty, thrill-crazed lives.

It's the deeply personal story of Dave Stern and Charlie Hall, two talented New York career boys, and the girls they exchanged for one mad week in Greenwich Village.

For one emotional risk led to others more reckless-until only violence could straighten out their tangled lives.

H Is For Heroin - David Hulbard

A TEEN-AGE NARCOTIC TELLS HER STORY

DOUBLEDAY & CO 

FIRST PRINTING 1952

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY VINCENT NUCERA

This is the story of Amy Burton, seventee-year-old dope addict:

"It sure is a horrible life to lead, you can take that from me. Every time you go out of the house you think you're going to get busted. But when you're down all you want is another jolt.

"You're never normal when you're hooked, nothing you do is normal. And when you're down for a few hours, why, that just makes it worse. The longest I was off, while I was married to Eddy and living in Coast City, that is, was twelve or fourteen hours.

"Once when Eddy was working and I decided to clean the house up a little I found five caps Eddy'd stashed away someplace, so I called a girl friend and we jolted and went to a show. When Eddy came home I said I was sick, you know, like I was down, so he gave me a jolt like I hadn't had one all day. You don't care who you lie to when you're hooked. And you don't care what you do."

So Sharp The Razor - Bruce Graeme

HUTCHINSON & CO 

FIRST PRINTING 1955

LONDON, UK

COVER ART BY LEY KENYON

THIS drama of Alf Betts and the Tiger Boys is a shockingly realistic and macabre story of London's adolescent hooligans; and few readers will deny that So Sharp The Razor is an arresting and strangely poignant novel of why juvenile crime is on the increase. Nor will there be many who can read this story without experiencing a disconcerting conviction that if we could secure for the teenagers of our larger cities happier and more comfortable homes for their formative years; green playing fields instead of bombed-sites for their robust games; worthier subjects for their conversation than sex and sadism, crime and coppers; if in fact, we assured for them these very ordinary amenities of civilisation, then there would be no Tiger Boys, no River Boys, no razor slashings, no gang rivalries, no futile murders of young Sams.

But, in those happier circumstances, this story could not have been written, and we should have been deprived of a dynamic and fast-moving tale that loses nothing by having real life for its inspiration.

On Prescription Only - Jean Freustie

ELEK BOOKS 

FIRST PRINTING 1954

LONDON, UK

COVER ART BY DERRICK SAYER

On his own prescription, a doctor obtains the drugs for which he craves. This story of a drug addict is told with intense frankness, maturity and realism, indicating autobiographical origin. Michael Louviot, a French Army doctor, finds himself cooling his heels in Algiers during the last war after the fall of France. Even the arrival of the Allies does not bring him active participation in the war and slowly he succumbs to the stagnant hopelessness of waiting. In the course of a love-affair with a colleague's wife, a drug addict, he injects himself for the first time and is set on the road he is to follow with tragic persistence. His decline and gradual disintegration are described vividly, yet at no point is the reader wholly alienated or made unsympathetic, for the the man's personality is not completely destroyed, even by degradation. A twilight world of intoxication is brilliantly conveyed, giving the book complete authenticity and making its reading a memorable and lasting experience.

Jailbait Street - Hal Ellson

She Belonged To Every Boy In The Gang

MONARCH BOOKS 399

FIRST PRINTING DECEMBER 1963

DERBY, CONNECTICUT, USA

COVER ART BY RAY JOHNSON

JAILBAIT STREET

Running Wild from darkness till dawn-snatching at love in deserted alleys or lonely rooftops-today's tough juvenile punks have turned our city streets into asphalt jungles of terror and lawlessness.

This is the savagely realistic story of teen-age gang-the Sultans-and their mixed-up leader, Silkie Meegan, whose desperate search for manhood drove him into frenzied excesses of violence and vice...

From the vengeance beating with bicycle chains of a rival gang...to the degraded sharing of sweet, virginal Carol with the rest of his gang. And finally to the fateful family feud with his own father over Charlotte-his father's prostitute mistress-who first taught Silkie her own kind of Jailbait Street love, then hired him to dig up new "business" for her.

Burial Of The Fruit - David Dortort

A GRIPPING NOVEL OF YOUTH IN THE SLUMS

AVON BOOKS 183

AVON REPRINT EDITION 1948

NEW YORK, USA

COVER ART BY ANN CANTOR

Conflict, Romance and Tragedy in the Slums of Brooklyn

What makes a boy or girl go bad? Why do some of the boys and girls of our city slums succumb so quickly to moral decay? In this tensely realistic novel of slums and gangs, of bitter love and violent death, much of the bitter truth is unashamedly revealed.

In these pages we live and die with young "Honey" Halpern through his hot-blooded, tragic career. From his neglected boyhood in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, he rose to be trigger-man for Lupo's mob of thugs and poolroom racketeers. When his best friend was killed, Honey only lived for revenge-until a new passion entered his life. Beautiful Renee was, like himself, a slum product, a devil-may-care girl pushed around by life. It may be that he shouldn't have loved her, body and soul, the way he did. But like all men, Honey had a good side too, and this new love proved it even to himself.

In this arresting novel David Dortort has given us a searing picture of the conflict of love and evil-of passion and criminal violence-in the mind and heart of one young man. When you have read BURIAL OF THE FRUIT, you will probably say, as the noted journalist Gerald W. Johnson said, that it is truly "A powerful and beautiful piece of work."