Living Up The Street

Authors: Soto, Gary
Genres: Realistic Fiction
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.
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