Gary Soto

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152840761
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Sides written by Gary Soto and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln Mendoza has to face his homeboys when his posh new school goes up against his old school on the basketball court.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811807586
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gary Soto written by Gary Soto and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soto writes with a pure sweetness free of sentimentality that is almost extraordinary in modern American poetry. -- Andrew Hudgins. Soto insists on the possibility of a redemptive power, and he celebrates the heroic, quixotic capacity for survival in human beings and the natural world. -- Publishers Weekly. Soto has it all -- the learned craft, the intrinsic abilities with language, a fascinating autobiography, and the storyteller's ability to manipulate memories into folklore. -- Library Journal.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0440409241
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Skirt written by Gary Soto and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Gary Soto and Matt de la Peña comes a tale of a contemporary Mexican-American family with a "spunky and imaginative heroine" (Publishers Weekly). Miata Ramirez is scared and upset. The skirt she brought to show off at school is gone. She brought her forklorico skirt to show off at school and left it on the bus. It’s not just any skirt. This skirt belonged to Miata’s mother when she was a child in Mexico. On Sunday, Miata and her dance group are supposedgoing to dance forklorico, or traditional Mexican folk dances; and that kind of dancing requires a skirt like the one Miata lost. It’s Friday afternoon. Miata doesn’ t want her parents to know she’s lost something again. Can she find a way to rescue the precious skirt in time? With its focus on family ties, friendship, and ethnic pride and Includes an afterword from its acclaimedthe author, The Skirt is a story that children everywhere will relate to and be inspired by, no matter their background. "A light, engaging narrative that successfully combines information on Hispanic culture with familiar and recognizable childhood themes....A fine read-aloud and discussion starter, this story blends cultural differences with human similarities to create both interest and understanding."—SLJ “Light, easy reading . . . offering readers a cast and situations with which to identify, whatever their own ethnic origins.”—The Bulletin "Soto's light tale offers a pleasant blend of family ties, friendship and ethnic pride...[and Miata is] a spunky and imaginative heroine."—Publishers Weekly

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0307817431
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Up The Street written by Gary Soto and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780756950415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afterlife written by Gary Soto and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570618755
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Poets Are Like written by Gary Soto and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Soto is a widely published author of children's and young adult fiction, and he is an acclaimed poet--often referred to as one of the nation's first Chicano poets. With a sharp sense of storytelling and a sly wit, What Poets Are Like is a memoir of the writing life that shares the keen observation, sense of self and humor of such writers as Sherman Alexie and Nora Ephron. In some 60 short episodes, this book captures moments of a writer's inner and public life, close moments with friends and strangers, occasional reminders of a poet's generally low place in the cultural hierarchy; time spent with cats; the curious work of writing. He tells the stories of his time spent in bookstores and recounts the glorious, then tragic, arc of Cody's Bookstore in Berkeley, ending with the author whose scheduled event fell on the day after the business shut down, but who stood outside the locked door and read aloud just the same. As all writers do, Soto suffers the slings and arrows of rejection, often from unnamed Midwest poetry journals, and seeks the solace of a friendly dog at such moments. Soto jabs at the crumbs of reward available to writers--a prize nomination here, a magazine interview there--and notes the toll they take on a frail ego. The pleasure Soto takes in the written word, a dose of comic relief plus his appreciation of the decisive moment in life make this an engaging and readable writer's confession.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547577370
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partly Cloudy written by Gary Soto and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0440210240
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Summer Life written by Gary Soto and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level." In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The "things" of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha "splotched with gold," the taps of his shoes and the "engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles," his worn tennies smelling of "summer grass, asphalt, the moist sock breathing the defeat of basesall." The child's world is made up of small things--small, very important things.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New and Selected Poems written by Gary Soto and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems describing the experiences of Mexican Americans in California.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 : 0698116003
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chato's Kitchen written by Gary Soto and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chato decides to throw a "pachanga" for his friend Novio Boy, who has never had a birthday party, but when it is time to party, Novio Boy cannot be found.