Feels Like Home

B Negative (Orca Soundings)

Belonging

Willow Run

Facts Speak for Themselves, The

Gemini

Twice as Perfect

The Noh Family

Twelve-year-old Chula Sanchez isnt thin, isnt beautiful, and because shes Mexican, isnt popular in her south Texas town. And now that a car accident has left her father paralyzed and her plagued with seizures, she is poor. But Chulas father is determined to pull his family out of debt. He sends for El Jefethe most revered prizefighter in Mexico. Chulas father hopes that with steel-pipe arms and fists like pit bulls, El Jefe will win the local illegal boxing matches and bring home much-needed money. But El Jefea man who many see as a monsteronly brings confusion to a home that is already filled with problems. And now Chula must decide for herself whether good and bad can reside in one person and whether you can have strength in your heart when your fists have none.From the Hardcover edition.

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B Negative (Orca Soundings)

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Belonging

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