Sweet little vignettes. This took me two goes to get through. I read the first few chapters, said "nope!" and put it aside. I picked it up again a week later because it's one of the few class sets I have that speaks culturally to my students. So glad I gave it a second go. It was a great book with a wonderful ending/moral. ( )

RGG: Set in the barrios of Los Angles, and not pulling any punches about the violence of the place, a middle-school aged boy describes through connected vignettes the goodness in the people in his life. Interspersed through out is vernacular Spanish and other details of the Mexican-American culture. Reading Level: 10-12

RGG: Set in the barrios of Los Angles, and not pulling any punches about the violence of the place, a middle-school aged boy describes through connected vignettes the goodness in the people in his life. Interspersed through out is vernacular Spanish and other details of the Mexican-American culture. Reading Level: 10-12

RGG: Set in the barrios of Los Angles, and not pulling any punches about the violence of the place, a middle-school aged boy describes through connected vignettes the goodness in the people in his life. Interspersed through out is vernacular Spanish and other details of the Mexican-American culture. Reading Level: 10-12