Taking sides
By: Gary Soto
Edition: Houghton Mifflin ed.
Series: Houghton Mifflin reading; NU Juvenile
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780618062805
Subjects: Hispanic Americans; Fiction; Basketball stories; Schools; Single-parent families
Description: Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood. Lincoln Mendoza remains loyal to his former school's basketball team, even after he moves from the barrio to the suburbs and plays for his new school's team. "This touchingly realistic story explores the divided loyalties of a Hispanic basketball player who has recently moved from a poor neighborhood to a more affluent one. . . . Soto masterfully conveys the Hispanic-American experience."
Notes: Reprinted by arrangement with Harcourt, Inc.