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MEXICAN WHITEBOY Matt de la Peña Hardcover | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 978-0-385-73310-6 | August 2008 | $15.99 | Ages 14 up Hardcover Library Binding | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 978-0-385-90329-5 | August 2008 | $18.99 | Ages 14 up

Ever feel like an outsider? A loner? Ever feel like you’re stuck between two worlds?

Danny is a Mexican WhiteBoy, a kid whose skin is too dark for his private high school and too light for the makeshift stickball field in National City where his cousins hang out. He’s torn between life with his uptight white mother and his larger-than-life Hispanic family. Of course, the one person who could give Danny some direction is his dad, who’s been M.I.A. since one fateful day three years ago. Danny has a choice: he can step up to the plate and find his place, or slouch back to the dugout and watch his dreams disappear behind left field.

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Prepared by Debbie Stanton, Youth Services Librarian, Kalona Public Library, Kalona, Iowa

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