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Bowles, David.
They Call Me Güero
[Libby] :
A Border Kid's Poems.
Cinco Puntos Press,
2018.
latino.
mixed race.
South Texas.
spirit animals.
border issues.
Hispanic Hero.
bookworms.
mexican american poetry.
nagual.
hispanic protagonist.
latino protagonist.
poetry for tweens.
adolescent poetry.
border kid.
middle school boy protagonist.
seventh graders.
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Juvenile Fiction.
Juvenile Literature.
Poetry.
HTML:<p><b>Bluebonnet Award Masterlist 2020-2021<br /> Pura Belpré Author Honor Book, 2019<br /> ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019<br /> Walter Award Honor Book, 2019<br /> Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, Bank Street 2019<br /> NCTE 2019 Notable Verse Novels<br /> Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award<br /> TIL Jean Flynn Award for Best Middle Grade Book 2018<br /> Skipping Stones Award<br /> Ámericas Award, Commended Title<br /> School Library Journal's 2018 Best Books<br /> Shelf Awareness 2018 Best Children's & Teen Books of the Year, Middle Grade</b></p> <p>Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river. He's starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool.</p> <p>In Spanish, "Güero" is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake: our red-headed, freckled hero is puro mexicano, like Canelo Álvarez, the Mexican boxer. Güero is also a nerd—reader, gamer, musician—who runs with a squad of misfits like him, Los Bobbys. Sure, they get in trouble like anybody else, and like other middle-school boys, they discover girls. Watch out for Joanna! She's tough as nails.</p> <p>But trusting in his family's traditions, his accordion and his bookworm squad, he faces seventh grade with book smarts and a big heart. Life is tough for a border kid, but Güero has figured out how to cope.</p> <p>He writes poetry.</p> <p>In Spanish, ""Güero"" is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. But make no mistake: our red-headed, freckled hero is puro mexicano, like Canelo Álvarez, the Mexican boxer. Güero is also a nerd—reader, gamer, musician—who runs with a squad of misfits like him, Los Bobbys. Sure, they get in trouble like anybody else, and like other middle-school boys, they discover girls. Watch out for Joanna! She's tough as nails.</p> <p>But trusting in his family's traditions, his accordion and his bookworm squad, he faces seventh grade with book smarts and a big heart. Life is tough for a border kid, but Güero has figured out how to cope.</p> <p>He writes poetry.</p>".
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