Wearing a calculator on his belt, Martin is a total Chicano nerd who is totally in love with Ceci, the coolest chola in school. Ceci, in turn, has developed her own secret crush on this geeky muchacho.
This collection of oral histories from immigrant teens provides an important glimpse of the experiences of newcomers to the U.S. in their own words.
"Lylice has skipped a year and is new to Susan B. Anthony Middle School in her hometown of Tucson.
Product Description: Isabel is a regular seventeen-year-old girl, still reeling from the pain of her boyfriend's tragic death exactly one year ago.
Product Description: Ninth grader Rudy has a date with eleventh grader Patricia. Now he has to come up with the money, the poise, and the conversation to carry it off.
Product Description: The quinceañera, a celebration of a Latina girl's fifteenth birthday, has become a uniquely American trend.
In Japan for the summer to practice the martial art of kempo, Lincoln Mendoza sometimes feels like little more than a brown boy in a white gi.
"It's not easy for Manuel Hernandez to discover his place in the world, especially when he is constantly bombarded with the hardships of his poor and woefully dysfunctional family.
Product Description: The fleeting emotions of teenagers, as changeable as the weather, ring true in these emotionally resonant poems.
"In this sharply honed collection of stories, Mexican American children on the brink of adolescence are testing the waters, trying to find their place in a world ruled by gangs and "marked with graffiti, boom boxes, lean dogs behind fences…" Some chara