| #10011720 in Books | 2000-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.75 x5.75 x.75l, | File type: PDF | 124 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This book is a fantastic choice for reluctant readers--and any reader|By Lissa Parker|I'm a special ed teacher. This book is a fantastic choice for reluctant readers--and any reader. It has a fast pace at times but also has lots of opportunity for 'close reading' (figurative language). My Latino students, in particular, love the book. One said it was the first book he had ever|From Booklist|Run or die, seventh-grader Trino thinks when he sees rat-faced Rosca and some other eighth-graders beating up the neighborhood convenience store owner, and they see him. Desperate, he ducks inside a
To be thirteen is worthless, Trino Olivares thinks. Trino has three little brothers he's supposed to look after, but no father he can look up to. He rules at video games, but in the classroom, and out in the real world, he's barely getting by - just like his mom, who scarcely manages to pay the bills and feed her sons by working all the time. Trino gets angry when he looks at the world around him. But when Rosca, an older teen with a vicious streak, invites him to start ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Trino's Choice | Diane Gonzales Bertrand. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
