With real wit and heart, Gary Soto takes readers into the lives of young people.
Meet Carolina, who writes to Miss Manners for help not just with etiquette but with bigger messes in her life; Ronnie and Joey, who feel so alienated from their world that they spend their days as "Teenage Chimps"; Javier, who knows the stories his friend Veronica tells him are lies, but can't find a way to prove it; Adan, who to his own shame and horror watches as his dad becomes a victim of the "Raiders Nation"; and many other kids, each of them caught up in the difficulties of figuring out what it means to be alive.
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Book Description:
Hardcover edition 2005
0-15-205201-1
About the Author:
GARY SOTO's first book for young readers, Baseball in April and Other Stories, won the California Library Association's Beatty Award and was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. He has since published many more books, including two additional collections of short stories, a play, several volumes of poetry, and many novels, among them The Afterlife. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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- PublisherHarcourt Childrens Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0152052011
- ISBN 13 9780152052010
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
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