They Call Me Güero

<b>An award-winning novel in verse about a boy who navigates the start of seventh grade and life growing up on the border the only way that feels right&#151;through poetry.</b><br><br>They call him <i>G&#252;ero</i> because of his red hair pale skin and freckles. Sometimes people only go off of what they see. Like the Mexican boxer Canelo &#193;lvarez twelve-year-old G&#252;ero is puro mexicano. He feels at home on both sides of the river speaking Spanish or English. G&#252;ero is also a reader gamer and musician who runs with a squad of misfits called Los Bobbys. Together they joke around and talk about their expanding world which now includes girls. (Don&#146;t cross Joanna&#151;she's tough as nails.)<br>&#160;<br>G&#252;ero faces the start of seventh grade with heart and smarts his family&#146;s traditions and his trusty accordion. And when life gets tough for this Mexican American border kid he knows what to do: He writes poetry.&#160;<br>&#160;<br>Honoring multiple poetic traditions <i>They Call Me G&#252;ero </i>is a classic in the making and the recipient of a Pura Belpr&#233; Honor a Tom&#225;s Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award a Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry and a Walter Dean Myers Honor.