Publisher: HarperCollins

Copyright Date: 1975

Edition Date: 1993 Release Date: 06/19/93

Pages: 263 pages

ISBN: 0-06-447100-4

ISBN 13: 978-0-06-447100-8

Dewey: Fic

Dimensions: 17 cm.

Subject Heading:
Puerto Ricans. New York (N.Y.). Fiction.

Language: English

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Word Count: 45,318

Reading Level: 4.2

Interest Level: 9-12

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.2 / points: 6.0 / quiz: 46114 / grade: Upper Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:6.9 / points:7.0 / quiz:Q14354

Lexile: 610L

Guided Reading Level: Z

Fountas & Pinnell: Z

In a city called New York ...
In a neighborhood called El Bronx ...

• The Fernandex children own a very special pet: A white hen named after their favorite Hollywood movie star.
• A new girl comes to school - a gypsy child who can read palms and foretell the future.
• A young boy must face the humiliation of wearing his uncle's orange roach-killer shoes to his high school graduation.

In the South Bronx - or El Bronx, as it's known to the people who live there - anything can happen. A migrant "fresh off the boat" from Puerto Rico can be somebody on the mainland, pursue the American Dream ... and maybe even make it come true.

Here are stories that capture the flavor and beat of El Bronx in its heyday, from 1946-1956.

A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year
Finalist, 1976 National Book Award for Children's Literature
A Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)

A very special pet
A new window display
"Tell the truth ..."
Shoes for Hector
"Once upon a time ..."
Mr. Mendelsohn
The wrong lunch line
A lesson in fortune-telling
Uncle Claudio
Princess
Herman and Alice
Love with Aleluya.