Books by Matt de la Pena
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review 1: I am usually a fan of a good disaster or a good virus/pandemic book, but the author put both of these ideas together in just a little over 30 pages. There was almost too much going on, but not enough at the same time. I think if the author had stuck with the earthquake/tsunami ...
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review 1: This time as Riq, Dak, and Sera are thrown around in history, they land in the Ancient Mayan civilization in the hopes of trying to save the precious Mayan Codex. They land in July 25, 638 and are among scholarly men who seem strangely familiar to Sera. But, they cannot find any ...
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review 1: A Nation's Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis is a non-fiction picture book about one of the biggest fights in boxing. Joe Louis is a boxing legend and this picture book is written so children can understand the significance he had on boxing. This book is great for studen...
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review 1: Miguel Castaneda. A sixteen year old boy, going to jail for a reason that has haunted Miguel ever since. Still not sure of what the heck he just did, he is sent to juvenile. Less than a week later, Miguel is sent to a group home where he meets many other weird people. There Migue...
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review 1: MATT DE LA PENAThis book follows Danny, a half-mexican teenager who is a skilled baseball player. At his school, Danny feels different from the other students since the school is predominately white. He goes to visit his dad’s side of the family that mainly speaks Spanish, but Da...
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review 1: This book was a perfect balance between story and side stories. while this dose seem like a romance when you get into it, its really not in the end. this is because in the romance the guy would get the girl or vise versa, while in this book the guy (in this case the main charter ...
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review 1: This was the most intense book I've read in a long time. In fact, parts of it were so difficult to read, I almost gave up, but I'm glad I finished it. This is a book about people with scars, mostly inner scars. The characters have the most painful lives imaginable and are each...
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review 1: This series is written by several different young adult authors, which is interesting in and of itself. However, this book seemed to take on a very different feeling than the first three books which made it a little hard to get into at first. Once I read more, I realized that the...
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review 1: CATEGORY: REQUIRED AUTHORMexican Whiteboy is a novel written in two voices. One is Danny, a half-Mexican, half-white boy and the other is Uno, half-Mexican, half-black. Each of these teens struggle with their identities, part of each culture, but not fully a member of either. Dan...