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They call me Güero : a border kid's poems / by David Bowles.

By: Publisher: El Paso, Texas : Cinco Puntos Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: 111 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Educational level group: Third grade students
  • Educational level group: Fourth grade students
  • Educational level group: Fifth grade students
  • Educational level group: Sixth grade students
  • Educational level group: Seventh grade students
  • Educational level group: School children
  • Educational level group: Middle school students
  • Age group: Children
  • Age group: Preteens
ISBN:
  • 9781947627062
  • 1947627066
  • 9781947627079
  • 1947627074
Other title:
  • A border kid's poems
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 811/.6 23
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.5.B69 Th 2018
  • PS3602.O8977 T484 2018
Contents:
Border kid -- Borderlands -- Checkpoint -- Our house -- Pulga pantoum -- Fingers & keys -- Lullaby -- Learning to read -- Nagual -- Bottle rocket battle -- First day of seventh grade -- Los Bobbys, or the Bookworm Squad -- They call me Güero -- Ms. Wong & the rabbit -- Trickster -- Birthday medley -- Sundays -- Records -- Variedad musical -- La Mano Pachona -- Mischief -- Confession -- Thoughts at mass -- The Newcomer -- Christmas concrete -- Uncle Joe's history lessons -- Tamalada -- Food for each season -- The gift -- Answering the bully -- Joanna la Fregona -- Neighborhoods -- Valentine texts -- Movies -- Remedios y rarezas -- Cascarón war -- La lechuza outside my window -- Ballad of the mighty Tlacuach -- Playoff game -- Spanish birds -- Mis otros abuelos -- Wedding in Monterrey -- Losing Puchi -- Wheels -- Carne Asada -- Father's day -- Teresa's Quinceañera waltz -- A sonnet for Joanna -- The refuge on the ranch.
Awards:
  • ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019
  • Américas Award commended title, 2019
  • Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, 2019
  • Jean Flynn Award for Best Middle Grade Book, 2018
  • NCTE Notable Verse Novel, 2019
  • Pura Belpré Author Honor, 2019
  • School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018
  • Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, 2019
  • Walter Honor, Younger Readers Category, 2019
Summary: Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.Summary: In Spanish, "Güero" is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake: our red-headed, freckled hero is pure mexicano, like Canelo Álvarez, the Mexican boxer. Güero is also a nerd--reader, gamer, musician--who runs with a squad of misfits like him, Los Bobbys. Sure, they get in trouble like anybody else, and like other middle-school boys, they discover girls. Watch out for Joanna! She's tough as nails. But trusting in his family's traditions, his accordion and his bookworm squad, he faces seventh grade with book smarts and a big heart. Life is tough for a border kid, but Güero has figured out how to cope. He writes poetry. -- From back cover.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Children's Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt Juvenile Books (MAIN level) JUVE PZ 7.5 .B69 Th 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 315324

""Border Kid" first appeared in Here We Go: a Poetry Friday Power Book (Princeton, NJ: Pometo Books, 2017), edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. It was then reprinted in the Journal of Children's Literature, 43(1), p. 16, 2017."

Border kid -- Borderlands -- Checkpoint -- Our house -- Pulga pantoum -- Fingers & keys -- Lullaby -- Learning to read -- Nagual -- Bottle rocket battle -- First day of seventh grade -- Los Bobbys, or the Bookworm Squad -- They call me Güero -- Ms. Wong & the rabbit -- Trickster -- Birthday medley -- Sundays -- Records -- Variedad musical -- La Mano Pachona -- Mischief -- Confession -- Thoughts at mass -- The Newcomer -- Christmas concrete -- Uncle Joe's history lessons -- Tamalada -- Food for each season -- The gift -- Answering the bully -- Joanna la Fregona -- Neighborhoods -- Valentine texts -- Movies -- Remedios y rarezas -- Cascarón war -- La lechuza outside my window -- Ballad of the mighty Tlacuach -- Playoff game -- Spanish birds -- Mis otros abuelos -- Wedding in Monterrey -- Losing Puchi -- Wheels -- Carne Asada -- Father's day -- Teresa's Quinceañera waltz -- A sonnet for Joanna -- The refuge on the ranch.

Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.

In Spanish, "Güero" is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake: our red-headed, freckled hero is pure mexicano, like Canelo Álvarez, the Mexican boxer. Güero is also a nerd--reader, gamer, musician--who runs with a squad of misfits like him, Los Bobbys. Sure, they get in trouble like anybody else, and like other middle-school boys, they discover girls. Watch out for Joanna! She's tough as nails. But trusting in his family's traditions, his accordion and his bookworm squad, he faces seventh grade with book smarts and a big heart. Life is tough for a border kid, but Güero has figured out how to cope. He writes poetry. -- From back cover.

850L Lexile

ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019

Américas Award commended title, 2019

Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, 2019

Jean Flynn Award for Best Middle Grade Book, 2018

NCTE Notable Verse Novel, 2019

Pura Belpré Author Honor, 2019

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, 2019

Walter Honor, Younger Readers Category, 2019

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