8 Ball Chicks
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8 Ball Chicks
by Authors:
GINI SIKES
Released: 20 January, 1998
ISBN: 0385474326
Paperback
Sales Rank: 86869
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Customer Review #1:
 Choking and brutal...
8 Ball Chicks is a book that i cant but down, I read Do or Die and its nothing compared to that. I was chocked to learn about what gang girls go through and whats so disturbing, is that they feel like they dont have a way out, no education, money, they have kids at 15 years old from gang rape and they dont even report it. Reading this book just made me want to continue in that field and maybe be able to help because even if you dont know them, you read about there lives and at some parts, i was frustrated and at others, i just wanted to cry because its so real and powerful. Gini did a good job and i give her great apprciation for writing a book so real about what people try so hard to hide. Read it...
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Customer Review #2:
Through the eyes of female gangs!
Originally I was reading the book because in a play at my University, (the play was on female gangs), and needed to do a little research, but when I picked up the book and began to read, I found many more reasons not to put it down. What captured me the most about the book was the way Gini Sikes was able to give the most vivid image of gang life through that book, I have ever read. I felt like I was on those L.A. streets and in those San Antonio neighborhoods.
I believe Gini Sikes not only captured the violent side of gang life but the human side. I was able to see these people, she wrote about, as more than "gang bangers", these people had lives and were living like any other person. Overall, this book is like a documentary written down. "Cocoa" and "Alicia" were having some normal troubles in their life and in some way or another, I could relate to that. It was things like man trouble, parent trouble, and school trouble, any usual young adult will go through those things (maybe not to the extreme. In my imagination, I visualized every part of the book as if it were a film.
Last, I believe Gini Sikes was very brave for going into each neighborhood personally and seeing for herself "the life". I think this made the book a lot better and it put more feeling into the book. I dont think she would have been able to write a very affective book if she had not actually stepped into the world of gangs for a minute. In conclusion, Gini Sikes did her job in dissecting the life of female gangs through a book!
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Customer Review #3:
Girl Gangs
We hear so much about boy gangs, that sometime we forget that females, are just as involved in the gang life as guys. If you would like to see whats its like for girl gang members, you dont want to miss this book. In reading 8ball chicks you will find out that girl gangs can be just as dangerous as the guys. The book is very informative, about female and their role in gangs.
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