CrashBoomLove

by Juan Felipe Herrera

Overview

A California farmworker kid's season in hell, told through fast-verse lines that careen to the beat of a fiery heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826321145
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	09/01/1999
Series:	Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	165
Product dimensions:	5.74(w) x 8.08(h) x 0.45(d)
Lexile:	580L (what's this?)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Juan Felipe Herrera is professor of Chicano studies at California State University, Fresno.

Editorial Reviews

aHerrera paints a devastating, yet ultimately hopeful portrait of Cesar Garcia, a 16-year-old Mexican teen growing up in the American high-school culture of Fowlerville, California. . . . Cesar is the classic example of Americaas throwaway teen, a young man constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time who, because of his language and cultural differences, becomes more and more marginalized. It is also the story of an educational system that can occasionally make the difference in both teensa and adultsa lives and futures. . . . a roller-coaster tour de force, remarkable for its ebulliant portrait of hope and survival. A must purchase.a

Herrera paints a devastating, yet ultimately hopeful portrait of Cesar Garcia, a 16-year-old Mexican teen growing up in the American high-school culture of Fowlerville, California. . . . Cesar is the classic example of Americas throwaway teen, a young man constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time who, because of his language and cultural differences, becomes more and more marginalized. It is also the story of an educational system that can occasionally make the difference in both teens and adults lives and futures. . . . a roller-coaster tour de force, remarkable for its ebulliant portrait of hope and survival. A must purchase.

"Herrera paints a devastating, yet ultimately hopeful portrait of Cesar Garcia, a 16-year-old Mexican teen growing up in the American high-school culture of Fowlerville, California. . . . Cesar is the classic example of America's throwaway teen, a young man constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time who, because of his language and cultural differences, becomes more and more marginalized. It is also the story of an educational system that can occasionally make the difference in both teens' and adults' lives and futures. . . . a roller-coaster tour de force, remarkable for its ebulliant portrait of hope and survival. A must purchase."

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