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Author de la Pen~a, Matt, author.

Uniform Title Mexican whiteboy. Spanish
Title Pocho / Matt de la Pen~a.

Publication Info. Nueva York : Vintage Espan~ol, una divisioe Penguin Random House, 2020.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Spanish Collection  SP DE LA PENA    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Young Adult Spanish Fiction  YA De la Pena    ---  Available
Edition Primera ediciointage Espan~ol, enero 2021.
Description 282 pages : 21 cm.
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Summary Danny es alto y delgado. A pesar de no ser fuerte, sus brazos son lo suficientemente largos como para lanzar un baloe ful americano con tanta fuerza, que cualquier cazatalentos lo contratariin pensarlo dos veces. Pero Danny ni siquiera es parte de un equipo. Cada vez que se entra en el campo, es como si perdiera sus poderes. Pero eso no tiene importancia. No es como si en la escuela privada a la que va esperen mucho de el. Danny es morenito. Y crecer en San Diego, una ciudad tan cercana a la frontera, significa que todo el mundo sabe exactamente quien es, incluso antes de pronunciar una palabra. Antes de saber que Danny no habla espan~ol y que su mama rubia y de ojos azules, ya todos han formado una impresioe el. Incluso el mismo. De hecho, Danny estanvencido de que las discrepancias entre su piel y su cultura han sido la causa de que su padre haya regresado a Meo. Por eso pasara verano con la familia de su papaero para encontrarse a sismo, primero tendrae enfrentarse a los demonios que tanto ha evadido, y tendrae aceptar abrirse a una amistad jamamagino que formari
Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy's not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound, he loses it. But at his private school, they don't expect much else from him. Danny is brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Before they find out he can't speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they've got him pegged. But it works the other way too. And Danny's convinced it's his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico. That's why he's spending the summer with his dad's family. But to find himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see--the demons that are right in front of his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming.
Audience 680L Lexile
Study Program Accelerated Reader UG 4.3 9 124044
Language En espan~ol. In Spanish.
Awards Una seleccioe Junior Library Guild. A Junior Library Guild selection.
Subject Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction.
Self-acceptance -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Identidad (PsicologivNovela. -- Novela.
Padre e hijo -- Novela.
Primos -- Novela.
National City (Calif.) -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780593313138 (pbk.)
0593313135 (pbk.)

 
    
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