Shelf Awareness 2018 Best Children's & Teen Books of the Year, Middle Gradeįavorites of 2019, Americas Society / Council of the AmericasĪ product of a Mexican-American family, David Bowles has lived most of his life in deep South Texas, where he teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley. TIL Jean Flynn Award for Best Middle Grade Book 2018 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award Life is tough for a border kid, but Güero has figured out how to cope.Ĭlaudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, Bank Street 2019 Watch out for Joanna! She's tough as nails.īut trusting in his family's traditions, his accordion and his bookworm squad, he faces seventh grade with book smarts and a big heart. Sure, they get in trouble like anybody else, and like other middle-school boys, they discover girls. Güero is also a nerd-reader, gamer, musician-who runs with a squad of misfits like him, Los Bobbys. But make no mistake: our red-headed, freckled hero is puro mexicano, like Canelo Álvarez, the Mexican boxer. In Spanish, "Güero" is a nickname for guys with pale skin, Latino or Anglo. He's starting 7th grade with a woke English teacher who knows how to make poetry cool. Twelve-year-old Güero is Mexican American, at home with Spanish or English and on both sides of the river.
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