Taking sides :

Soto, Gary

Taking sides : and related readings / Gary Soto. - Evanston, Ill : McDougal Littell, 1998. - 147 p. - Literature Connections .

Contents: Taking Sides (novel by Gary Soto) ; Endless Search (poem by Alonzo Lopez), from Barrio Boy (memoir by Ernesto Galarza) ; In the inner city (poem by Lucille Clifton) ; I Yearn (poem by Ricardo Sanchez) ; Granny Ed and the Lewisville Raiders (short story by Rae Rainey) ; A game of catch (short story by Richard Wilbur).

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.



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Hispanic Americans--Fiction
Basketball--Fiction
Schools--Fiction
Single-parent family--Fiction