A Summer Life

Gary Soto writes that when he was five -what I knew best was at ground level.- In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The -things- of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha -splotched with gold,- the taps of his shoes and the -engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles,- his worn tennies smelling of -summer grass, asphalt, the moist sock breathing the defeat of basesall.- The child's world is made up of small things--small, very important things.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
Published: 08/01/1991
ISBN: 9780440210245
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 6.92h x 4.22w x 0.45d

Review Citations: Booklist 12/15/1996 pg. 717
Publishers Weekly 09/27/1991

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 180757 / Summer Life
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 6