Living Up The Street |
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| Authors: | Soto, Gary |
| Topics: | Community, Sports |
| Lexile: | 1140, |
| Publisher: | Random House Children's Books |
| BISAC/Subject: | YAF011000, YAF046140, YAF014000 |
| ISBN: | 9780307817433, Related ISBNs: 0307817431, 0440211700, 9780307817433, 9780440211709 |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 176, |
| Audience: | Young adult |
Synopsis: In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team.
His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.
His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.
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