{"id":36921,"date":"2014-07-30T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36921"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T21:06:56","slug":"mexican-whiteboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36921","title":{"rendered":"Mexican WhiteBoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhousekids.com\/books\/detail\/38914-mexican-whiteboy?isbn=9780440239383\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Mexican WhiteBoy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhousekids.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Random House Kids<\/a><br \/>\n2008-08-12<br \/>\n256 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-385-73310-6<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-440-23938-3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattdelapena.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Matt de la Pe\u00f1a<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhousekids.com\/books\/detail\/38914-mexican-whiteboy?isbn=9780440239383\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhousekids.com\/media\/images\/books\/cover_images\/9780385733106.jpg.172x250_q85.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhousekids.com\/books\/detail\/38914-mexican-whiteboy?isbn=9780440239383\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhousekids.com\/media\/images\/books\/cover_images\/9780440239383.jpg.172x250_q85.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WINNER &#8211; LatinoStories.com Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch (and Read) (2009)<\/li>\n<li>WINNER &#8211; Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book (2008)<\/li>\n<li>WINNER &#8211; ALA Best Books for Young Adults<\/li>\n<li>NOMINEE &#8211; Arizona Young Readers Award<\/li>\n<li>NOMINEE &#8211; New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Danny&#8217;s tall and skinny. Even though he\u2019s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy\u2019s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.<\/p>\n<p>But at his private school, they don\u2019t expect much else from him. Danny\u2019 s brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Before they find out he can\u2019t speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they\u2019ve got him pegged. But it works the other way too. And Danny\u2019s convinced it\u2019s his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why he\u2019s spending the summer with his dad\u2019s family. Only, to find himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see&#8211;the demons that are right in front of his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the alleys and on the ball fields of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Diego_County,_California\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County<\/a>, <em>Mexican Whiteboy<\/em> is a story of friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny&#8217;s tall and skinny. Even though he\u2019s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy\u2019s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15],"tags":[17641,17640],"class_list":["post-36921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-matt-de-la-pena","tag-random-house-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53421,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36921\/revisions\/53421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}