At the B & N Teen Blog she tagged five of the best YA books about crime families, including:
Mafia Girl, by Deborah BlumenthalRead about another entry on the list.
Filled with romance, decadent meals, and fabulous clothes, Mafia Girl offers a safe alternative to actually living out your lawless dreams, so you can avoid sleeping with the fishes. Gia might attend an exclusive Manhattan high school, but life’s not easy when your dad is a mafia boss. Those who don’t want to be her, fear her, and Gia herself lives in constant fear of her father going to jail. She longs to be more than her infamous name…and when she falls head over heels for a police officer, her loyalty to her family is tested.
--Marshal Zeringue