Featherless
By: story by Juan Felipe Herrera ; illustrations by Ernesto Cuevas, Jr. = Desplumado / cuento de Juan Felipe Herrera ; ilustraciones de Ernesto Cuevas, Jr.
Contributors: Cuevas, Ernesto, ill.
Publisher: Children's Book Press; Children's Book Press/Editorial Libros para Ninos
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction; Mexican Americans -- Fiction; Spina bifida -- Fiction; People with disabilities -- Fiction; Soccer -- Fiction; Birds as pets -- Fiction; Spanish language materials -- Bilingual; California -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Other titles: Desplumado
Description: Although Tomasito's spina bifida keeps him in a wheelchair, where he often feels as confined as his flightless and featherless pet bird, he discovers that he can feel free when he is on the soccer field.