by Matt de la Peña (Author)
Pocho es una historia de amistad, aceptaci n y la lucha por encontrar tu identidad en el mundo.
Danny es alto y delgado. A pesar de no ser fuerte, sus brazos son lo suficientemente largos como para lanzar un bal n de f tbol americano con tanta fuerza, que cualquier cazatalentos lo contratar a sin pensarlo dos veces. Pero Danny ni siquiera es parte de un equipo. Cada vez que se entra en el campo, es como si perdiera sus poderes.
Pero eso no tiene importancia. No es como si en la escuela privada a la que va esperen mucho de el. Danny es morenito. Y crecer en San Diego, una ciudad tan cercana a la frontera, significa que todo el mundo sabe exactamente quien es, incluso antes de pronunciar una palabra. Antes de saber que Danny no habla espa ol y que su mam es rubia y de ojos azules, ya todos han formado una impresi n de el. Incluso el mismo. De hecho, Danny est convencido de que las discrepancias entre su piel y su cultura han sido la causa de que su padre haya regresado a M xico.
Por eso pasar el verano con la familia de su pap . Pero para encontrarse a s mismo, primero tendr que enfrentarse a los demonios que tanto ha evadido, y tendr que aceptar abrirse a una amistad jam s imagino que formar a.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Pe a's Mexican WhiteBoy is a story of friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions. Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy's not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound, he loses it.
But at his private school, they don't expect much else from him. Danny is brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Before they find out he can't speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they've got him pegged. But it works the other way too. And Danny's convinced it's his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico.
That's why he's spending the summer with his dad's family. But to find himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see--the demons that are right in front of his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming.
Matt de la Pe a's critically acclaimed novel is an intimate and moving story that offers hope to those who least expect it.
An ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults A Junior Library Guild SelectionAuthor Biography
Matt de la Peña es el primer autor méxicanoamericano en ganar la Medalla Newbery. Asistió a la University of the Pacific con una beca de básquetbol, y después recibió su maestría en escritura creativa en San Diego State University. Vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York, en donde enseña escritura. Es autor de varios libros para jóvenes lectores, entre ellos Pocho, su novela debut. Aquí estuvimos es su tercera novela.
Number of Pages: 288
Dimensions: 1 x 8 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: January 26, 2021
