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Baseball in April : and other stories / Gary Soto.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, c1990.Edition: 10th anniversary edDescription: 111 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0152025731
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PZ7.S7242 Bas 1990
Online resources:
Contents:
Broken chain -- Baseball in April -- Two dreamers -- Barbie -- The no-guitar blues -- Seventh grade -- Mother and daughter -- The karate kid -- La bamba -- The marble champ -- Growing up.
Summary: A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. In this unique collection of short stories, the small events of daily life reveal big themes-love and friendship, youth and growing up, success and failure. Calling on his own experiences of growing up in California's Central Valley, poet Gary Soto brings to life the joys and pains of young people everywhere. The smart, tough, vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong to all of us. 5-1/8 X 7-5/8.
List(s) this item appears in: Pura Belpré Book Award
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Juvenile Collection Juvenile Collection Albright College Library Juvenile Fiction and Non-Fiction Children's collection J-Fic S718b (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 31856002130449
Total holds: 0

Broken chain -- Baseball in April -- Two dreamers -- Barbie -- The no-guitar blues -- Seventh grade -- Mother and daughter -- The karate kid -- La bamba -- The marble champ -- Growing up.

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. In this unique collection of short stories, the small events of daily life reveal big themes-love and friendship, youth and growing up, success and failure. Calling on his own experiences of growing up in California's Central Valley, poet Gary Soto brings to life the joys and pains of young people everywhere. The smart, tough, vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong to all of us. 5-1/8 X 7-5/8.

Pura Belpré Award, honor book for narrative.

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