Gary Soto
2) Puppy love
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After saving a drowning puppy while dealing with a huge crush on his classmate Sierra, thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza nurses the abandoned puppy back to health and wonders who threw her into the canal and if there are more puppies needing rescue.
5) Hey 13!
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A collection of thirteen short stories about the ups and downs of being thirteen years old.
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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...
His is a clarity that rings...
10) Crazy weekend
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After their photograph of a robbery is published in the newspaper, Hector and Mando find themselves pursued by two goofy thieves.