The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California's Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

Lincoln Mendoza has to face his homeboys when his posh new school goes up against his old school on the basketball court.

Being thirteen is happy, sad, humiliating, surprising, wonderful, awful, exciting, boring -- in other words, full of ups and downs. The thirteen-year-olds in Ga

For fans of Gary Soto and Matt de la Peña comes a tale of a contemporary Mexican-American family with a "spunky and imaginative heroine" (Publishers Weekly). M