Always Running

Gang Days in L.A.

About this book

Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. is a 1993 autobiographical book by Mexican-American author Luis J. Rodriguez. In the story of the book, Rodriguez recounts his days as a member of a street gang in Los Angeles (specifically, East Los Angeles and the city's eastern suburbs).

Subjects

  • bandes de jeunes
  • biografía
  • biographies
  • biography
  • biography & autobiography
  • california, biography
  • cultural, ethnic & regional
  • fiction, general
  • gangs
  • jóvenes mexicano-americanos
  • juventud mexicano-americana
  • literary figures
  • los angeles (calif.), biography
  • mexican americans
  • mexican american youth
  • pandillas
  • personal memoirs
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 12
  • reading level-grade 9
  • social activists