Product Description: In thirteen stories full of wit and energy, Gary Soto illuminates the ordinary lives of young people.
"Pursuing his father's dying wish, 15-year-old Lorenzo Bannister sets off to deliver a letter to his grandfather and becomes unexpectedly involved in some lesser-known aspects of the American Revolution, rubbing shoulders with such legendary figures as
Product Description: In Xavier Garza's bilingual kids' book, young Carlitos attends his first lucha libre match in Mexico City.
Marcelo Sandoval, a 17-year-old with an Asperger's-like condition, has arranged a job caring for ponies at his special school's therapeutic-riding stables.
"A bilingual collection of 15 traditional tales from Latin America, arranged into four sections: Scary Stories, Trickster Tales, Strong Women, and Myths.
Product Description: Eddie Corazon is angry. He's also very smart. But he's working pretty hard at being a juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, even though he's a secret reader.
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"The Hispanic neighborhood in Soto's 21 poems is brought sharply into focus by the care with which he records images of everyday life: the music of an ice cream vendor's truck, the top of a refrigerator where old bread lies in plastic, dust released in
Wearing a calculator on his belt, Martin is a total Chicano nerd who is totally in love with Ceci, the coolest chola in school. Ceci, in turn, has developed her own secret crush on this geeky muchacho.
This collection of oral histories from immigrant teens provides an important glimpse of the experiences of newcomers to the U.S. in their own words.
"Lylice has skipped a year and is new to Susan B. Anthony Middle School in her hometown of Tucson.