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Rooster Joe and the Bully = El Gallo Joe y El Abuson

Author: Garza, Xavier

Follett Number: 1543PBX
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Pinata Books, Arte Publico Press, 2016
Format: 64, 66 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-835-0
ISBN-10: 1-55885-835-0
LCCN: 2016-025266
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
Artists Fiction
Bullies and Bullying Fiction
Hispanic Americans Fiction
Middle Schools Fiction
Schools Fiction
Spanish Language Materials Bilingual
Text in English and Spanish.;Translated from the English.;Works issued back-to-back and inverted. Seventh-grader Joe Lopez, a promising artist, stands up to a bully and survives, thanks to his Grandpa Jesse's advice about "la lucha." A bilingual book with Garza's black and white sketches depicting bullies, heroes, and the roosters that Joe loves to draw.

From the publisher:
This short novel for intermediate readers by acclaimed author and artist Xavier Garza features a seventh-grade boy juggling his desire to be an artist as successful as his grandfather, the need to escape a bully intent on taking him down and his interest in a new girl at school.

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