| Description |
167 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm |
| Summary |
The author describes his experiences growing up as a Mexican American in Fresno, California. In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 8.0 79633. |
| Subject |
Soto, Gary -- Childhood and youth.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Mexican Americans -- California -- Fresno -- Biography.
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Mexican American poets -- California -- Fresno -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780440211709 |
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0440211700 |
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144878395X PawPrnts |
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9781448783953 PawPrnts |
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