Details

ISBN-10: 0064471861
ISBN-13: 9780064471862
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Publish Date: 12/28/2004
Dimensions: 6.72" L, 4.36" W, 0.64" H

Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida

Illustrator: Steve Scott

Mass Market Paperbound

Price: $10.99

Overview

Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person — even a ten-, five-, or one-dollar person. Below that, everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad, we were pennies.

Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny. He wants to be a vato firme, the kind of guy people respect. But that′s not easy when your father is abusive, your brother can′t hold a job, and your mother scrubs the house as if she can wash her troubles away.

In Manny′s neighborhood, the way to get respect is to be in a gang. But Manny′s not sure that joining a gang is the solution. Because, after all, it′s his life — and he wants to be the one to decide what happens to it.

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"A brilliant, witty memoir of a Mexican-American adolescence."– "U.S. News & Report""A rare and consummately believable portrait of barrio life."– "Publishers Weekly" (Starred review)
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Details

ISBN-10: 0064471861
ISBN-13: 9780064471862
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Publish Date: 12/28/2004
Dimensions: 6.72" L, 4.36" W, 0.64" H
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