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Title	Baseball in April and other stories / Gary Soto.
Author	Soto, Gary.
Publisher	San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1990.
Paging	ix, 137 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes	"An Odyssey book."
Summary	A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.
Subject(s)	Children's stories, American
	Mexican Americans California Fiction.
	Short stories.

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Title	Taking sides / Gary Soto.
Author	Soto, Gary.
Publisher	San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1991.
Paging	138 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary	Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood.
Subject(s)	Basketball stories.
	Single-parent families Fiction.
	Hispanic Americans Fiction.
	Schools Fiction.
	Single-parent families Fiction.

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Title	The afterlife / Gary Soto.
Author	Soto, Gary.
Publisher	Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2003.
Paging	161 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary	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.
Web Link	Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/har031/2003044995.html
Subject(s)	Ghost stories.
	Mexican Americans Fiction.
	Murder Fiction.
	California Fiction.

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Title	Buried onions / Gary Soto.
Author	Soto, Gary.
Publisher	San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace, 1997.
Paging	149 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary	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.
Subject(s)	Mexican Americans Fiction.
	Violence Fiction.

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Title	Jesse / by Gary Soto.
Author	Soto, Gary.
Publisher	San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1994.
Paging	166 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary	Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
Subject(s)	Mexican Americans Fiction.
	College stories.

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Title	Breaking through / Francisco Jimenez.
Author	Jimenez, Francisco, 1943-
Publisher	Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
Paging	195 p. ; 19 cm.
Notes	Sequel to: The circuit.
Summary	Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
Web Link	Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm021/2001016941.html
Subject(s)	Mexican Americans Juvenile fiction.
	Agricultural laborers Fiction.
	Mexican Americans Fiction.
	California Fiction.

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Title	Asphalt angels / Ineke Holtwijk ; translated by Wanda Boeke.
Author	Holtwijk, Ineke.
Publisher	Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, Lemniscaat, c1999.
Paging	184 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary	Abandoned on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, thirteen-year-old Alex joins a group of children like him and finds himself adapting to his new life.
Other Authors	Boeke, Wanda.
Subject(s)	Homeless persons Fiction.
	Brazil Fiction.
	Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Fiction.

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Title	Esperanza rising / Pam Munoz Ryan.
Author	Ryan, Pam Munoz.
Publisher	New York : Scholastic, [2001], c2000.
Paging	262 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary	Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Subject(s)	Agricultural laborers Juvenile fiction.
	Mexican Americans California Juvenile fiction.
	Agricultural laborers Fiction.
	Mexican Americans California Fiction.
	California Juvenile fiction.
	California Fiction.

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Title	Parrot in the oven : mi vida : a novel / by Victor Martinez.
Author	Martinez, Victor, 1954-
Publisher	New York : HarperTrophy, 1998, c1996.
Paging	216 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes	"Joanna Cotler books."
Summary	Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle.
Subject(s)	Family life Fiction.
	Alcoholism Fiction.
	Mexican Americans Fiction.

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