"Parrot in the Oven"
This is an amazing book about a fourteen year-old boy's sometimes funny, sometimes sad vida.
"Manny’s dad is always calling him el perico, or parrot.It’s from a Mexican saying about a parrot that complains how hot it is in the shade while all along he’s sitting inside the oven and doesn’t know it.But Manny wants to be smarter than the parrot in the oven—he wants to find out what it means to be a vato firme, a guy to respect.From an exciting new voice in Chicano literature, this is a beautifully written, vivid portrait of one Mexican-American boy’s life."
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This is an amazing book about a fourteen year-old boy's sometimes funny, sometimes sad vida.
"Manny’s dad is always calling him el perico, or parrot.It’s from a Mexican saying about a parrot that complains how hot it is in the shade while all along he’s sitting inside the oven and doesn’t know it.But Manny wants to be smarter than the parrot in the oven—he wants to find out what it means to be a vato firme, a guy to respect.From an exciting new voice in Chicano literature, this is a beautifully written, vivid portrait of one Mexican-American boy’s life."
Click here to learn more!
posted by Casey at 12/07/2005 01:13:00 PM
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