Baseball in April and Other Stories: Award-Winning Tales About Friendship, Youth, and Growing Up for Kids (Ages 8-12) - Softcover

Soto, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0152025677 ISBN 13: 9780152025670

Verlag: Hmh Books for Young Readers, 2000

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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 stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed girls, embarrassing grandfathers, imposter Barbies, annoying brothers, Little League tryouts, and karate lessons weave the colorful fabric of Soto’s world. The smart, tough, vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong to all of us. Glossary of Spanish terms included.

Awards: ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Booklist Editors’ Choice, Horn Book Fanfare Selection, Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book, Parenting Magazine’s Reading Magic Award, John and Patricia Beatty Award

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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 novels, short stories, plays, and poetry collections for adults and young people. He lives in Berkeley, California. Visit his website at garysoto.com.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hmh Books for Young Readers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0152025677
• ISBN 13: 9780152025670
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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