num_pages: 249
description: Danny's tall and skinny. Even though hes not built his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball but the boys not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.But at his private school they dont expect much else from him. Danny s brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Before they find out he cant speak Spanish and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes theyve got him pegged. But it works the other way too. And Dannys convinced its his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico. Thats why hes spending the summer with his dads family. Only to find himself he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see--the demons that are right in front of his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming.Set in the alleys and on the ball fields of San Diego County Mexican Whiteboy is a story of friendship acceptance and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions.
language: English
title: Mexican Whiteboy
publisher: Delacorte Press