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They call me Güero : a border kid's poems

David Bowles (Author)
Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher
Print Book, English, 2018
First edition View all formats and editions
Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, Texas, 2018
Children's stories
850L
111 pages ; 23 cm
9781947627062, 9781947627079, 9781536461701, 9781549076879, 1947627066, 1947627074, 1536461709, 1549076876
1048656940
Border kid
Borderlands
Checkpoint
Our house
Pulga pantoum
Fingers & keys
Lullaby
Learning to read
Nagual
Bottle rocket battle
First day of seventh grade
Los Bobbys, or the Bookworm Squad
They call me Güero
Ms. Wong & the rabbit
Trickster
Birthday medley
Sundays
Records
Variedad musical
La Mano Pachona
Mischief
Confession
Thoughts at mass
The Newcomer
Christmas concrete
Uncle Joe's history lessons
Tamalada
Food for each season
The gift
Answering the bully
Joanna la Fregona
Neighborhoods
Valentine texts
Movies
Remedios y rarezas
Cascarón war
La lechuza outside my window
Ballad of the mighty Tlacuach
Playoff game
Spanish birds
Mis otros abuelos
Wedding in Monterrey
Losing Puchi
Wheels
Carne Asada
Father's day
Teresa's Quinceañera waltz
A sonnet for Joanna
The refuge on the ranch
""Border Kid" first appeared in Here We Go: a Poetry Friday Power Book (Princeton, NJ: Pometo Books, 2017), edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. It was then reprinted in the Journal of Children's Literature, 43(1), p. 16, 2017."