Honoring multiple poetic traditions, They Call Me Güero is a classic in the making and the recipient of a Pura Belpré Honor, a Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, a Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, and a Walter Dean Myers Honor. And when life gets tough for this Mexican American border kid, he knows what to do: He writes poetry. Güero faces the start of seventh grade with heart and smarts, his family’s traditions, and his trusty accordion.
(Don’t cross Joanna-she's tough as nails.) Together, they joke around and talk about their expanding world, which now includes girls. Güero is also a reader, gamer, and musician who runs with a squad of misfits called Los Bobbys. He feels at home on both sides of the river, speaking Spanish or English. He is a huge nerd who has a group of friends, Los Bobbys, who share his interests, passions and newfound curiosity in girls. As 7th grade begins, Gero learns about his parents struggles and seeks his voice. Seventh grade is ending, and Güero’s budding romance with Joanna is getting serious. They Call Me Gero: A Border Kid’s Poems Gero is a 12-year-old, Mexican-American boy sharing his experiences living in a border city. Like the Mexican boxer Canelo Álvarez, twelve-year-old Güero is puro mexicano. In Bowles’ superb companion novel to They Call Me Güero (2018), young poet Güero’s social consciousness unfolds as he navigates his first romantic relationship with the fiercely intelligent Joanna. Sometimes people only go off of what they see. They call him Güero because of his red hair, pale skin, and freckles. Honoring multiple poetic traditions, They Call Me Güero is a classic in the making and the recipient of a Pura Belpré Honor, a Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, a Claudia Lewis Award for Excellence in Poetry, and a Walter Dean Myers Honor.An award-winning novel in verse about a boy who navigates the start of seventh grade and life growing up on the border the only way that feels right-through poetry.
Like the Mexican boxer Canelo Álvarez, twelve-year-old Güero is puro mexicano. An award-winning novel in verse about a boy who navigates the start of seventh grade and life growing up on the border the only way that feels right-through poetry.
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