It's very beautifully written and the characters are stunning, but it's thoroughly depressing. Thinking. Sensitively told and true to the experience of many Mexican Americans, this bilingual picture book ... His school is strict and the time period is full of strange twists and turns. You're so full of shit."

I don't know.

But overall, really loved it!I don't really know what to say about this book. At the end of this book, I found myself in tears, it felt as if I was living Sammy Santos life. It's a great portrayal of a group of Hispanic teenagers living in a barrio in New Mexico in the 1960s. Saenz provides the Mexican‐American teen with a voice that is genuine and compelling, realistic in its limitations and nuances as he comes to grips with the death of Juliana, his first love, and the increasingly complex demands and needs of his remaining … Probably the only novel I've ever read that has a twist BEGINNING instead of a twist ENDING, with one of the biggest shocks I've ever read in a book coming in the first 50 pages. I see my lips moving, "Yes, todo, todo." She didn't need the bottles. Not now. A drink in her hand. But the writing! To say I chose the most captivating book is definitely an understatement. He is best known to the general public as a writer of Young Adult fiction. But before school starts, she is brutally murdered be her own father. I conclude that the publisher arbitrarily decides the category -- the author, at least Sáenz, doesn't sit down to write a "YA novel" or an "adult novel" in the same way he decides to write a children's book.Sammy Santos has never known a life outside of the barrio of Hollywood, New Mexico. Three and a half years later, he left the priesthood.

Be the first to ask a question about Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood In a way, they’re acting like a hook reeling a fish in until they finally catch it in their hands. August 1st 2006 Although he is very smart, he goes to a community college and takes care of his sister after his Dad dies. Alire broke me in this one. DESCRIPTION FROM THE BOOK JACKET: A young adult novel Latino-style–the year is 1969. Born Mexican-American Catholic in the rural community of Picacho, New Mexico, he now teaches at the University of Texas at El Paso, and considers himself a “fronterizo,” a person of the border.I remember her eyes, the gray of a sky about to let loose a storm. I've grown skeptical of "young adult fiction," which is typically cheesy or full of shallow shock-value. She didn't live in Hollywood. "Well," she said, "everyone needs to collect something." You take after her." I`m Mexican so I had no problem reading this book at all. The fact that the author chose to do something that seemed so wrong to me at first, but finishing the book now, I learned more of what an author has to do to keep the readers intrigued. From the traditions, to the music, to the discrimination faced in the day-to-day life, so this book automatically drew my attention because the culture of this book was in fact Mexican-American. That never, ever changes. He finds new friends and discovers new parts of him that lay hidden under years of concealed sentiments.

I used to picture her eyes as I was lying in bed. Some of those quotes and images are going to really stick with me. He lives in a loving home with his father and little sister, as his mother died of cancer years ago. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. And I didn't know anything about reading palms either. I encourage readers to not just skip over the Spanish words, but to learn them (especially if you are pretty good at Spanish, you need to know the slang too, not just the formal talk. As for the look at how gay people were treated, I don't think many current students know how bad homosexuals had it in the '60s and '70s, even though that was supposed to be a "liberating and accepting" time. Just at night. I've never known anything about that. kingdom of Bhutan. Every year, Kinga and his classmates wait for the black-necked cranes to return to the Probably the only novel I've ever read that has a twist BEGINNING instead of a twist ENDING, with one of the biggest shocks I've ever read in a book coming in the first 50 pages.

Not then. Being the story of a small barrio in New Mexico, it was a lot different from most of what I've read of late.

No one, no one had ever told me that love was another name for exile." To hell with everything. I don't need to suffer like this. Sad. It reached me all the way to where I lived in southern New Mexico. I thought that I experienced heartbreak, I thought that I experienced real-life discrimination, I thought that I lost my family and friends. At first I thought it was going to be centered around a friendship or somewhat of a love story, but there was a twist to it and everything completely changed. I smelled the cigarettes through the cellophane--and it was then that I . You surprised me on most every page. (FROM MY BLOG) Benjamin Alire Sáenz is a Mexican-American novelist, poet, and author of books for young children. Sammy just wants to get through high school and leave Hollywood for college, but he has challenges throughout the book. I think if I knew Spanish or had been near a computer I would have taken even more away from it, because there were bits of conversation throughout lost on me--but even so, I don't think I necessarily lost anything because of it.Sammy is a member of the graduating class of 1969 from the high school in the poor barrio of Hollywood, New Mexico. Maybe because both were set against the backdrop of Vietnam war.

The “Hollywood” where Sammy Santos and Juliana Ríos live is not the West Coast one, the one with all the glitz and glitter. He was the fourth of seven children and was brought up in a traditional Mexican-American Catholic family.

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