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Soto, Gary

Mercy on These Teenage Chimps

147 pp. | Harcourt | January, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-15-206022-0 $16.00
(2) 4-6 Ronnie and his best friend Joey (both thirteen) are changing, with long gangly arms and awkward chimplike behavior. When Coach publicly humiliates Joey, he takes to a tree. Soto adroitly blends the unlikely with the realistic, grounding the story with sharply observed details of life in a lower-middle-class California community. This is a rollicking novel about the painful beginnings of adolescence.
Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2007

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