Parrot in the Oven, Mi vida - Victor Martinez

Title: Parrot in the Oven

Sub Title: Mi vida

Author: Victor Martinez

Publisher: HarperCollins

Year: 1998

ISBN: 9780064471862

Summary: Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person -- even a ten-, five-, or one-dollar person. Below that, everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad, we were pennies. Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny. He wants to be a vato firme, the kind of guy people respect. But that￢ﾀﾲs not easy when your father is abusive, your brother can￢ﾀﾲt hold a job, and your mother scrubs the house as if she can wash her troubles away. In Manny￢ﾀﾲs neighborhood, the way to get respect is to be in a gang. But Manny￢ﾀﾲs not sure that joining a gang is the solution. Because, after all, it￢ﾀﾲs his life -- and he wants to be the one to decide what happens to it.

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