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 Summer vacation day 17/ Book 15


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Summer vacation day 15/ book 13


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 Sixteen-year-old Danny Lopez has a white mother and an absent Mexican father. He attends an exclusive San Diego prep school on scholarship because his grades are good, but he doesn't fit in there because he's too dark. He loves his father's family, who all live in National City, but there, he's too white and he doesn't speak Spanish. He's also a ( Read more... )

Fifteen-year-old Evie Spooner narrates this part-period piece, part mystery that has the feel of the film noir movies that were prevalent in the 1940s. It is 1947 and Evie's stepfather has returned from the war and is growing rich owning appliance stores in the New York metropolitan area. Evie adores him and her mother, but her mother is "a looker ( Read more... )