Read book for my Resources for Young Adults class. Really enjoyed it. ( )

I read this book my junior year in HS with a student teacher. It was the most awful book I had probably EVER read. I would suggest you do NOT read this book if you want to keep your sanity ( )

This is a story about a boy named eddie who lives in fresno. He lives in a hard part of town where everyone cries since things are so hard. He says that is because onions are buried underneath the city. He has to overcome gang, violence, and poverty during his journey. ( )

I enjoyed the way the author wrote this book. Soto has more poetic imagery than other books I've read recently. The young man seemed like a good guy who was kind of trapped in bad circumstances. This book made me feel a little trapped also. I would use this book in a classroom for high school students in the hopes that this story would make them want to go to college and finish. ( )

This book is about a young boy, Eddie, who lives in a horrible neighborhood where his cousin was killed. He strives to be better and one day get out of the town, but he has many struggles on the way. He tries to occupy his time with jobs, so that he doesn't get in trouble, but has a hard time finding a job and on top of that has horrible luck. I think this is a great book for all students to read. It describes the struggles and trials a young teen faces when they are set up to fail. I think is is a wonderful book also because it brings some Spanish culture into the classroom as well. This is a book that I will have in my classroom.