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YA
Scheming Alby convinces his fight-trained buddy Barry to participate in an all-comers boxing match. Barry needs the money to help his widowed mother pay the bills, while Alby hopes to pay off a gambling debt. The modern-day Texas setting is juxtaposed with language and characters (some frustratingly two-dimensional) seemingly lifted from the old boxing movies the novel resembles.
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As we find our way through these eleven disparate coming-of-age cuentos about Chicano culture, Saldaña forces us to experience the linguistic world of many of his protagonists--the decision to offer no glossary for the Spanish phrases that infuse his text serves as a curative disadvantage for the English-speaking reader. Never maudlin or overdrawn, these taut but lyrical tales bring light into the corners of kids' lives.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2003
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