Martinez Victor - Parrot In The Oven - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person -- even a ten- five- or one-dollar person. Below that everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad we were pennies. Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny. He wants to be a vato firme the kind of guy people respect. But that's not easy when your father is abusive your brother can t hold a job and your mother scrubs the house as if she can wash her troubles away. In Manny's neighborhood the way to get respect is to be in a gang. But Manny's not sure that joining a gang is the solution. Because after all it's his life -- and he wants to be the one to decide what happens to it.
Title: Parrot In The Oven
Author(s): Martinez Victor
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780064471862
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 12/28/2004
Category: Personal & Social Issues: Racism & Multiculturalism (Children's / Teenage)