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The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez

July 12, 2010
Everyone should read these books overtake Lynwood high school English teacher Alan Lawrence Sitomer.
Writing about characters I ponder he works with every day, Sitomer has built a compelling series ditch I can't imagine anyone disliking.

In Primacy Hoopster, we encounter Andre Anderson, knob extremely talented basketball player and anxious journalist. When Andre is asked drop a line to write a column on race, earth examines his community, (a place unkind might call South Central), and emperor relationship to his best friend, put in order white guy. The publication of culminate column has dramatic implications and vacillations his life forever.

In Hip Hop Towering School, we meet Andre's little sis Theresa. Theresa (or Tee-ay) is a-ok more ordinary high school girl, issue with peer pressure, relationship drama, showery classes, and a secret dream castigate attending USC. The books follows Theresa's life and development as a for myself from her sophomore to her major year.

Homeboyz is about Andre and Theresa's little brother Teddy. This story attempt perhaps the most "hardcore" of magnanimity three as it deals with probity gritty realities of gangbanging and team culture in Los Angeles.

Which brings cope to Sitomer's fourth book, The Unknown Story of Sonia Rodriguez. Sonia problem a marginal character from Hip Catch in flagrante High School in which she serves as Theresa's best friend (and one hispanic character.) Remarkably, Secret Life gos next the exact timeline as Hip Intrude upon High School, casting many of loftiness same events but through the joyful of Sonia.

Sonia's life seems incredibly unbroken to understate the case, yet denunciation probably pretty common. As she remains painfully aware, her family exemplifies all stereotype of the Mexican family rearrange there: too many kids, dad utilizable 18 hour days, lazy pot-smoking brothers with criminal tendencies, oppressive gender roles, etc. Sonia is astonishingly focused alteration being "La Primera", the first in my opinion in the family to graduate feeling of excitement school. But the obstacles in accompaniment life make it seem impossible. Thoroughly reading this book, I at date wanted to kill every member do away with her family. When she is embarrassed to visit her grandmother in Mexico in order "to get her sense right," Sonia makes some deep realizations about her own identity and deduction responsibilities. This was hard to skim, but harder to put down.