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This review book brings together the long vowel sounds taught in SET 4, which feature the word families: oon, une, een, ean, ight, ite, oat, ale, and ail.
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"Paulsen is skilled at pace, incident and characterization, and he uses them to pull the reader to the memorable--and powerful--last scene...Teenagers will not want to put it down."
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Manny Bustos is an orphan, scrabbling for survival on the streets of Juáurez, Mexico. He sleeps in a cardboard box and fights with boys bigger and older than him for the coins American tourists through off the bridge between El Paso, Texas, and his town.
Across the border, Sergeant Robert S. Locke, Vietnam vet and Army prefect, searches for a way to drown the cries for help of his dead friends, and finds it in Cutty Sark whiskey. On the night Manny dares the crossing, through the muddy shallows of the Rio Grande, past searchlights and border patrol, in the hopes of a better life, the two meet in an explosive encounter that fills the night with tension and endless possibilities.
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- PublisherB E S Pub Co
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0812093372
- ISBN 13 9780812093377
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages30
- IllustratorGifford Kerri
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