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Feb 01, 1992 | ISBN 9780440211709 | Young Adult Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jun 27, 2012 | ISBN 9780307817433 | Young Adult Buy
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Feb 01, 1992 | ISBN 9780440211709 | Young Adult
Jun 27, 2012 | ISBN 9780307817433 | Young Adult
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.
Born in Fresno, California, to Mexican American parents, Gary Soto is an acclaimed poet, essayist, and fiction writer. The awards for this multitalented author are many, ranging from the US Award for International Poetry Forum to a Before Columbus Foundation… More about Gary Soto
“One of those rare books that come from the author’s heart, tempered by his intelligence and made alive by imaginative spirit.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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