Burro Genius: A Memoir

Photograph of Victor Villaseñor

Highly gifted and imaginative as a child, Victor Villaseñor coped with an untreated learning disability (he was finally diagnosed, at the age of forty-four, with extreme dyslexia) and the frustration of growing up Latino in an English-only American school in the 1940s. Despite teachers who beat him because he could not speak English, Villaseñor clung to his dream of one day becoming a writer and is now considered one of the premier writers of our time.

Culture/Community: Mexican / Mexican American
Heritage & History: Hispanic Heritage and History
Themes for Middle Grade/YA: Writing & Journals, Coming of Age, Disability, Identity, School
Audiobook: No
Age Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Harper Perennial