Pocho es una historia de amistad, aceptacion y la lucha por encontrar tu identidad en el mundo.

Danny es alto y delgado. A pesar de no ser fuerte, sus brazos son lo suficientemente largos como para lanzar un balon de futbol americano con tanta fuerza, que cualquier cazatalentos lo contrataria sin pensarlo dos veces. Pero Danny ni siquiera es parte de un equipo. Cada vez que se entra en el campo, es como si perdiera sus poderes.

Pero eso no tiene importancia. No es como si en la escuela privada a la que va esperen mucho de el. Danny es morenito. Y crecer en San Diego, una ciudad tan cercana a la frontera, significa que todo el mundo sabe exactamente quien es, incluso antes de pronunciar una palabra. Antes de saber que Danny no habla espanol y que su mama es rubia y de ojos azules, ya todos han formado una impresion de el. Incluso el mismo. De hecho, Danny esta convencido de que las discrepancias entre su piel y su cultura han sido la causa de que su padre haya regresado a Mexico.

Por eso pasara el verano con la familia de su papa. Pero para encontrarse a si mismo, primero tendra que enfrentarse a los demonios que tanto ha evadido, y tendra que aceptar abrirse a una amistad jamas imagino que formaria.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Newbery Award-winning and New York
Times bestselling author Matt de la Pena’s Mexican WhiteBoy is a story of
friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of
definitions.

Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long
enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him
on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a
team. Every time he gets up on the mound, he loses it.

But at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny is
brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the
border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his
mouth. Before they find out he can’t speak Spanish, and before they realize
his mom has blond hair and blue eyes, they’ve got him pegged. But it works
the other way too. And Danny’s convinced it’s his whiteness that sent his
father back to Mexico.

That’s why he’s spending the summer with his dad’s family. But to find
himself, he may just have to face the demons he refuses to see–the demons
that are right in front of his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw
coming.

Matt de la Pena’s critically acclaimed novel is an intimate and moving
story that offers hope to those who least expect it.

An ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young
Adults

A Junior Library Guild Selection