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.
Author: Victor Martinez
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: HarperCollins Espanol
Published: 12/28/2004
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.72h x 4.36w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780064471862
Language: English
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