Skirt, The - Hardcover

Soto, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385306652 ISBN 13: 9780385306652

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2008

Synopsis

THE SKIRT IS gone. Miata Ramirez is scared and upset. She brought her forklorico skirt to show off at school and left it on the bus. It’s not just any skirt. This skirt belonged to Miata’s mother when she was a child in Mexico. On Sunday, Miata and her dance group are going to dance forklorico. It’s Friday afternoon. Miata doesn’t want her parents to know she’s lost something again. Can she find a way to rescue the precious skirt in time?

Includes an afterword from the author.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Miata has left the beautiful folklrico skirt her mother wore in Mexico on the bus. She was going to wear the skirt on Sunday when her dance group performed folklrico. Can Miata and her friend Ana rescue the precious skirt in time? A warm-hearted story about a contemporary Mexican-American family.

About the Author:

Born in Fresno, California to Mexican American parents, Gary Soto learned the hard work ethic through his share of chores, including mowing lawns, picking grapes, painting house numbers on street curbs, and washing cars. His hard work paid off at California State University at Fresno, from which he graduated with an English degree, and later at the University of California at Irvine, where he earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Gary Soto is an acclaimed poet, essayist, and fiction writer. The awards for this multi-talented author are many, ranging from the U.S. Award for International Poetry Forum to a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award and in was nominated for a National Book Award. His other credits include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the California Arts Council.
   When he is not writing, Mr. Soto serves as a volunteer English teacher at his church. He also enjoys eating at new restaurants, which he does often with his wife, Carolyn, and their daughter Mariko. Other members of the Soto household include their two cats, Corky and Sharkie. The Soto family resides in Berkeley, California.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0385306652
• ISBN 13: 9780385306652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80