A Summer Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780440210245)

Gary Soto writes that when he was five -what I knew best was at ground level.- In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The -things- of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha -splotched with gold,- the taps of his shoes and the -engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles,- his worn tennies smelling of -summer grass, asphalt, the moist sock breathing the defeat of basesall.- The child's world is made up of small things--small, very important things.

Author: Gary Soto
ISBN-10: 0440210240
ISBN-13: 9780440210245
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1991
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 6.92h x 4.22w x 0.45d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 180757 / Summer Life


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/1996 pg. 717
Publishers Weekly 09/27/1991