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Title: An OK book for high school readers
Review: The book is okay but sets the bar pretty low in terms of style and content for a mature adult market. The premise and the characters might be appealing to high school kids, but the entire book is too juvenile (not in the insulting sense, but chronological sense) to appeal to mature adults. In the hands of Steibeck, say, it might have been possible to have this story be a window on another world that mature readers could learn about and empathize with. As it is, it's just another teenage tale.I have to disagree with another reviewer who didn't think the constant insertion of chicano slang was realistic. San Jose CA (to name but one place) is full of Hispanic kids born in the US but who reject English as a matter of ethnic pride.
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