Gary Soto Books
Mercy on these teenage chimps
By Gary Soto
At age thirteen, best friends Ronnie and Joey suddenly feel like chimps--long armed, big eared, and gangly--and when the coach humiliates Joey in front of a girl, he climbs up a tree and refuses to...
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Facts of Life: Stories
By Gary Soto
Children and teens from all walks of life deal with the dramas of growing up.
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Buried Onions
By Gary Soto
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
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Partly Cloudy
By Gary Soto
Poet Gary Soto captures the voices of young people as they venture toward their first kiss, brood over bruised hearts, and feel the thrill of first love.
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Local news
By Gary Soto
A collection of thirteen short stories about the everyday lives of Mexican American young people in California's Central Valley.
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Neighborhood odes
By Gary Soto
Twenty-one poems about growing up in an Hispanic neighborhood, highlighting the delights in such everyday items as sprinklers, the park, the library, and pomegranates.
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