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Juan Felipe Herrera

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From U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera comes the powerful journey of Chicano teen Lucky Z. A former skateboarder who's anything but lucky, he finds triumph and power through his voice. Raw, cool, real—this novel in verse is a shout-out to teens to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, to raise their voice and find strength in the sheer and simple power of expression.

Lucky Z has always lived on the edge—he loved to skateboard, to drag race, to feel alive. But things have taken a turn—he's living with new foster parents and a tragic past. An accident changed everything. And only his voice will set him free. As you feel Lucky breathe in life again, you will want to shout out with him.

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131 pages
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English
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Publication date

February 22, 2011
Reading age

13 - 17 years
Grade level

8 - 9
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6568 KB
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Juan Felipe Herrera is the U.S. Poet Laureate and was inspired by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movement and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz, and blues performance streams. His published works include 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971–2007; Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream; Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of the Americas; Thunderweavers/Tejedoras de Rayos; Laughing Out Loud, I Fly, a Pura Belpré Honor Book; Américas Award winners Crashboomlove and Cinnamon Girl; Calling the Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; and Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and previously served as California Poet Laureate. He has taught at both California State University, Fresno and University of California, Riverside and held the Tomás Rivera endowed chair in creative writing. He lives in Fresno, California.

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"The girls you meet in Living the Confidence Code are changemakers. They are making the world a better place. We can all learn so much from their bravery and resilience." (Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004IWR39W
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; Reprint edition (February 22, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 22, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6568 KB
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Juan Felipe Herrera was initiated into the Word by the fire-speakers of the early Chicano Movimiento and by heavy exposure to various poetry, jazz, and blues performance streams. He is the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California - Riverside. His published works include Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream, Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of the Americas, and Thunderweavers / Tejedoras de Rayos.

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A poetic account of a Chicano youth - coming of ...

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A poetic account of a Chicano youth - coming of age story with vivid images and an insight of the immigrant - outsider experience !

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Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2011

When you read Lucky Z.'s story, you are reading his most personal thoughts in what he describes as his "hot-pink" journal. Some prose, but mostly poetry, expresses his pain and suffering and how he comes to terms with what life has dealt him.

Lucky Z. might not appear lucky as he describes the screws in his legs and a bumpy scar on his forehead as he sits in his wheelchair. All of this is the result of a senseless accident. It's an accident that killed a friend and has him trying to make sense of what is left.

Thanks to cancer, his mother is gone, and his father is more interested in alcohol and violence than he is in his son. Now living in a foster home, Lucky Z. pours out his feelings in his verse.

SKATE FATE is tightly written and requires concentration and focus from the reader. Herrera's poems reveal Lucky Z.'s passion and pain, but without the use of conventional mechanical structure, readers will find it a challenging read.

Reviewed by: Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky"

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Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2012

Poetry and journal entries make up this novel. It tells the story of a foster child who was injured in an accident in which his friend was killed and leaves him in a wheelchair. He suffers bullying and abuse because of his injury and also for his sexual orientation. The poems were very deep and moving. I can not imagine the pain that his young man must have been going though. Kids today can be so cruel.

This novel will appeal to teens that enjoy poetry. It's short in length but very profound in content.

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