Parrot in the Oven
by Victor Martinez, Steve Scott (Illustrator)
ISBN-10: 0064471861
ISBN-13: 9780064471862
$10.99
Book Specs
Trade Paper
HarperCollins Espanol
Published on
Dec 28, 2004
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
4.25x0.75x6.75 Inches
Weight
0.26 Pounds
About the Book
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.