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      A Summer Life

      by Gary Soto
      Published
      Sep 1991
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      160
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      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.

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Young Adult / Teens

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      Sep 1991 Laurel Leaf ISBN13 9780440210245 ISBN10 0440210240
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      Aug 1991 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780833574732 ISBN10 0833574736
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      Aug 1991 Perfection Learning ISBN13 9780780706965 ISBN10 078070696X
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      Sep 2011 University Press of New England ISBN13 9781611682014 ISBN10 1611682010
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      Sep 2011 University Press of New England ISBN10 B005BON746
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      Jul 2013 AudioGO ISBN13 9781624605857 ISBN10 1624605850
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      Jul 2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc. ISBN10 B00DP4APH6
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