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A collection of poems brings to life themes of growing up, family, friendship, and first love and are drawn from the author's background as a Mexican-American in the San Joaquin Valley. Reprint.
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Grade 7-12-- A collection of 23 free-verse poems, each prefaced with a comment on how it came to be written. All reflect Soto's own experiences of growing up as a Mexican American in California, and, later, as the father of a young child. The poems, about everyday activities and events, are similar to Paul Janeczko's work in Brickyard Summer (Orchard, 1989). In the brief foreword and a question-and-answer section in the back of the book, Soto explains how he came to write poetry and why he writes as he does. Like the selections and comments by a number of contributors in Janeczko's The Place My Words Are Looking For (Bradbury, 1990), Soto's poems and thoughts provide gentle encouragement to young people who are seeking to express themselves through the use of language. --Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
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Autumn With A Daughter Who's Just Catching On
Black Hair
Brown Girl, Blonde Okie
Eating Bread
Envying The Children Of San Francisco
Evening Walk
Failing In The Presence Of Ants
Finding A Lucky Number
Heaven
Hitchhiking With A Friend And Book That Explains Pacific Ocn
How Things Work
How To Sell Things
In August
Kearney Park
Learning To Bargain
Looking Around, Believing
Morning On This Street
October
Oranges
Pepper Tree
Teaching Numbers
That Girl
Where We Could Go
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- PublisherScholastic Paperbacks
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0590445790
- ISBN 13 9780590445795
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages63
- IllustratorJames M. Cardillo
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