Then he pushed her back until her head was on the ground. "Henry,” she protested, “I haven't-I've never-” “You've lied enough already," he said. Don't try to tell me this is the first time you've done this,” Henry said. Beto wanted to run to her, but he couldn't move. The clouds cleared then, and tears shone on her face. “Don't do this, Henry." Naomi's lip trembled as she spoke. What do you do with a field you own? You plow it.” He walked over to Naomi. "Now I'm going to show you another side of what it means to be a man. He crossed to the tree and tested the knots one by one before turning his back to Wash. “That wasn't so hard, was it?” Henry said when Beto finished. 380-381) Beto tied Wash to the tree with shaking fingers.
Becoming a published author has expanded my audience considerably, but they are still the readers I think about the most.The rape scene (p. Pérez: Even before I met my husband, (Arnulfo Pérez, also a professor at Ohio State University) I came to care deeply about Latino communities through a number of experiences: spending time with family friends growing up, volunteering in an evening ESL program, working as a Spanish literacy tutor for children in the bilingual program at Blackshear Elementary in Austin, Texas, studying and doing translation work in Mexico, and-most of all-teaching my primarily Latino students at César E. NBC News: Your books delve heavily into the Latino experience.
"If readers walk away thinking about the voices that are at the margins of history and thinking about how race plays a role in people’s lives, I’d be very happy with those outcomes," says novelist Ashley Hope Pérez. My kids are 25 to 28 now and they have families, but in my mind I still see them as they were in my (high school) classroom and I think about what they’re passionate about. I’m just interested in telling interesting human stories about adolescence.
I don’t think in terms of what teens can handle. Pérez: I really think about young readers as increasingly capable and powerful readers because I was a teacher and I know what kind of books I wanted to have to offer my students.
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