A Good Long Way (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Stop it. The two of you, stop it! You're father and son; you should love each other." Roelito howls at his father and older brother as their heated argument turns into a pushing, shoving match. Beto has again come home way past curfew, and worse, smelling...
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"Stop it. The two of you, stop it! You're father and son; you should love each other." Roelito howls at his father and older brother as their heated argument turns into a pushing, shoving match. Beto has again come home way past curfew, and worse, smelling like a cantina. When Beto Sr. tells his son that he either needs to follow the rules or leave, the boy—a senior in high school and a man as far as he's concerned—decides to leave, right then, in the middle of the night. Once he has walked away, though, he realizes he has nowhere to go. Maybe his best friend Jessy—a hard-as-nails girl who has run away before—can help him.The story of Beto's decision to run away and drop out of school is told from shifting perspectives in which the conflicted lives of Roel, Beto, and Jessy are revealed in short, poignant scenes that reflect teen-age life along the Texas-Mexico border.Each one has a good long way to go in growing up. Roel fights against the teachers' assumptions that he's like Beto. Unlike his big brother, Roel is book smart and actually enjoys school. Jessy is smart too, but most of her teachers can't see beyond her tough-girl façade. Her parents are so busy fighting with each other that they don't notice her, even if she's packing a suitcase to leave. And Beto...somewhere along the way he quit caring about school. And his teachers have noticed and given up too. Author and educator René Saldaña, Jr. once again writes a fast-paced, thought-provoking novel that will engage young adults in questions about their own lives and responsibilities to family, friends, and most of all, to themselves.
Autoren-Porträt von René Saldaña
René Saldaña, Jr. is the author of several acclaimed novels for young people that depict life in Mexican-American communities. In A Good Long Way, an affecting novel that follows the troubled lives of three teens in deep South Texas, Saldaña once again writes a fast-paced narrative that will engage young adults in questions about their own lives and responsibilities to family, friends, and most of all, to themselves. He is the author of the acclaimed Mickey Rangel Series of bilingual mysteries for intermediate readers; the second bilingual novel, The Lemon Tree Caper / La intriga del limonero, was published in 2011 and the first, The Case of the Pen Gone Missing / El caso de la pluma perdida, was published in 2010 by Arte Público Press. He published Dancing with the Devil and Other Tales from Beyond / Bailando con el Diablo y otros cuentos del más allá, a bilingual collection of tales featuring supernatural elements rooted in Latino folklore, with Piñata Books in 2012. He lives in Lubbock, Texas, where he teaches in the College of Education at Texas Tech University.
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- Autor: René Saldaña
- 2010, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 161192510X
- ISBN-13: 9781611925104
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.10.2010
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