When The Music Stops - Tom Morse with Bobby Lauster

 In the parks, on the streets, countless young people are riding the merry-go-round to hell. Where will they be...when the music stops

LAKELAND 228

LONDON, UK

FIRST BRITISH EDITION 1972

In one of the world's most famous holiday areas - Miami, Florida - the playground becomes a prison to many. Tom Morse was a young Jazz musician who played with Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, and other bands in the U.S.A. and Europe.

It was during a 'jam session' that Tom's life was turned right-side up and he turned away from drugs and drink to help other young people find meaning in life.

This book tells the stories of some of the young people who have found help and new direction for living through 'Surfside Challenge' - inspiring reading for people of every age group but particularly helpful for adults who 'can't understand young people today' as well as for puzzled youngsters who think there's nothing certain worth living for.

The Amboy Dukes - Irving Shulman

A NOVEL OF WAYWARD YOUTH IN BROOKLYN

AVON 300

8TH PRINTING, JANUARY 1951 (300,000)

NEW YORK, USA

"This Book Is Emphatically a Reading 'Must' for Young People..."

EDWIN J. LUCAS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME (NEW YORK)

This book is emphatically a reading "must" for young people as well as for the sociologist interested in the phenomena of gang warfare and neighborhood tensions. The saga of a conflict gang, told so powerfully in THE AMBOY DUKES, is really twice told: once, within the covers of this book: and again, in every city and town of the U.S.A. Rarely has a writer captured so faithfully and recorded so excitingly the poignant drama that is being daily unfolded for hundreds of thousands of our young people in the teeming pathways we call "streets."

Within the compass of every city street are found eloquent evidence of all society's strengths and weaknesses - from the towering air-conditioned edifices of industry to the filthy dwelling places provided for man to lay his weary body at day's end; from youth's craving for understanding, sympathy and affection, to the community's indifference to those needs. The street bears the tokens of all our ambitions, hopes and capacity to love and be loved. But there are also the scars of our fears, hates, envy, thirst for revenge, and the deep, tortured feelings of guilt which arise our of long forgotten as well as remembered episodes.

When and how can we bring these forces under control? It will, or should be, clear to the readers of THE AMBOY DUKES that they have it within their power to strike a telling blow against the continuance of the conditions - economic, social and psychological - which breed and foster crime.

EDWIN J. LUCAS,

Executive Director,

Society for the Prevention of Crime

Road Kids - Bud Clifton

This is today's beat generation - thrill-crazy kids living for kicks, for girls and for speed...

CORGI BOOKS SN931

1ST CORGI EDITION 1960

LONDON, UK

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE UK AS "THE POWER GODS" BY EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE 1958

TOP SPEED TEENAGERS

Here is a high octane story of speed, love and violence with the road kids of America.

Share thrill for thrill with the tough leather-jacketed teenagers who ride death for kicks along the 100-mile-an-hour highways of Nevada.

The Violent Ones - Edited By Brant House

POWERFUL STORIES OF THE TEEN-AGE JUNGLE

   

ACE D-323

1ST PRINTING 1958

NEW YORK, USA

WHO ARE THE VIOLENT ONES?

THEY ARE the teen-agers whose street games are played with knives, saps and zip guns.

THEY ARE the kids who make headlines about the latest brutal gang rumbles.

THEY ARE the kind of kids who are stirring up violence right now on the streets of your own home town.

THERY ARE the kids who inhabit these stories of the teen-age terror, written by such masters of realism as EVAN HUNTER, GIL BREWER, HAL ELLSON and many others.

THE VIOLENT ONES is explosive and powerful reading.

Rumble Fish

RUMBLE FISH

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 8156

AUSTRIA 1984

"The Motorcycle Boy's Never Coming Back"

Starring Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Nicholas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Tom Waits, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Based on the novel "Rumble Fish" by S. E. Hinton

Zoetrope Studios / Hotweather Films

USA 1983

Cry Tough

NEW YORKS HARDE HALSE

aka CRY TOUGH

DENMARK 1961

"Battle Cry of New York's West Side Jungle!"

Starring John Saxon, Linda Cristal and Joseph Calleia 

Directed by Paul Stanley

Based on the novel "Cry Tough" by Irving Shulman

Canon Productions

USA 1959

The Wild Rebels

DIE ENGEL DES SATANS

aka THE WILD REBELS

NEUES FILM-PROGRAMM Nr. 4916

AUSTRIA 1968

"THEY LIVE FOR KICKS...LOVE FOR KICKS...KILL FOR KICKS!"

Starring Steve Alaimo, Willie Pastrano, John Vella and The Birdwatchers

Directed by William Grefé

Comet / Crown International Pictures

USA 1967