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Baseball in April and Other Stories: Tenth Anniversary Edition
111 pp.
| Harcourt |
April, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-15-202573-1$$16.00
|
PaperISBN 0-15-202567-7$$6.00 1990
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Soto is an astute observer of the desires, fears, and foibles of children and teenagers going about the business of daily living. In these eleven vignettes featuring Mexican-American families, the character portrayals are gentle; the tone is quiet and somewhat bittersweet; and respect for family is a consistent value. This illumination of the everyday will strike chords of recognition in readers of all ages. Glos.