Loqueleo Catalog 2019

Gary Soto Béisbol en abril y otros cuentos Baseball in April and Other Stories Gary Soto Cruzando el Pacífico Pacific Crossing Gary Soto Tomando Partido Taking Sides ILLUSTRATIONS Barry Root GR R Self-Esteem and Self-Reliance / Hispanics in the U.S. / Mexicans and Mexican Americans 9781631139116 5" x 8" / 152 pp $10.95/ PB Literature Narrative / Stories / Realistic Fiction ILLUSTRATIONS Sandy Young GR R Identity / Family / Sports 9781631139109 5" x 8" / 172 pp $11.95 / PB Literature Narrative / Novel / Realistic Fiction ILLUSTRATIONS Sandy Young GR R Friendship / Sports / Multicultural 9781631139123 5" x 8" / 156 pp $10.95 / PB Literature Narrative / Novel / Realistic Fiction In this unique collection of short stories, the small events of daily life reveal big themes— love and friendship, youth and growing up, success and failure. Calling on his own experiences of growing up in California’s Central Valley, poet Gary Soto brings to life the joys and pains of young people everywhere. Lincoln is in a jam when his basketball team at his new school—where the students are rich and mostly white—faces his old team from the barrio on the boards. How can he play his best game against his friends? Yet how can he betray his new teammates by not giving the game everything he’s got? No matter who wins, it looks like it will be a lose-lose situation for Lincoln. In Japan for the summer to practice the martial art of kempo, Lincoln sometimes feels like little more than a brown boy in a white gi. But with the help of his Japanese “brother,” Mitsuo, Lincoln sees that people everywhere, whether friends or kempo opponents, share passions much like his own—for baseball, family traditions, and new friendships. MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR PURA BELPRÉ HONOR BOOK, MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR 214 Hispanic Culture and Other Cultures 5-8 WWW.LOQUELEO.COM/US HISPANIC CULTURE AND OTHER CULTURES