Eddie, a Mexican American high school junior in New Mexico, speaks about his school and everyday life from a critical perspective.

You have to like this book because it is a good uplifting story, but I always think about who is going to read it. To me, this is a great book for a teacher book club, or for the English department to assign for all faculty to read. Eddie Corazon has a lot to say to the adults in his world and to the teachers who are so dedicated to "helping" him get his life in order, but I am not sure that students would respond to the characters. ( )

Many students, including mself, sometimes don't like our teachers; this may be because I smiply dont like school or i don't get a good grade on a test. In a secondary school in New Mexico, the students feel the same. Eddie Corazon is, at first, one of those students. Eddie and the city he lives in are shown in "Muchacho" by Louanne Johnson.

Certain events in this story make Eddie develop his own plans for the future, and it begins to take action. He becomes successful in his own mind, and despite many complications, gets past almost all of his current problems.

I highly recommend this book for reluctant readers as well as any body who thinks they have life figured out. I felt as if i did before, but not anymore. ( )

This book was very good. Though it wasnt really challenging it was a book that no mattter your background or who you are if youve ever went to school and had a teacher that treated you like crap then you could easily relate. ( )

Eduardo Corazon (Eddie) is a student at a mostly Hispanic alternative school. He is, by his own admission, an at-risk student, as are most others at the school. But he's made a promise to his mother that he'll graduate-- a regretted promise made because he had nothing else to give her late one night when he realized he'd forgotten it was his birthday. The novel is told in the first person from Eddie's point of view. To get a fine arts credit, Eddie enrolls in Ballroom Dance. Well, to be honest, he enrolled in the class only after seeing a show on TV where the girls were "so fine!" and noticed that the dudes got to actually touch the girls when they danced. So he was one of three guys in a class with 23 girls, which is how he meets his girlfriend. Author LouAnne Johnson tells an engaging story that will appeal to a majority of the students who claim that they don't read books. In other words, this is a fantastic recommendation for reluctant readers as well as ESL students from a Latin heritage. More importantly, it's an important recommendation for students who don't see others as equals. Perhaps my favorite sections in the novel are Eddie's musings about how Latinos are treated differently, and how white people might react if they were in the same situations. Johnson humanizes a very real and rather large part of our society through Eddie's wonderful narration. Highly recommended. This is shortlisted for the 2012 Missouri Gateway Readers Award, and I really hope this makes the final cut. There have been a great many less worthy candidates on the final list. ( )