They Call Me Güero. David Bowles
THEY CALL ME
GÜERO
THEY CALL ME
GÜERO
A BORDER KID’S POEMS
by DAVID BOWLES
They Call me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems. Copyright © 2018 by David Bowles. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written consent from the publisher, except for brief quotations for reviews. For further information, write Cinco Puntos Press, 701 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 79901; or call 1-915-838-1625.
“Border Kid” first appeared in Here We Go: A Poetry Friday Power Book (Princeton, NJ: Pomelo Books, 2017), edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. It was then reprinted in the Journal of Children’s Literature, 43(1), p. 16, 2017.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bowles, David (David O.), author.
Title: They call me Guero : a border kid’s poems / David Bowles.
Description: First edition. | El Paso, Texas : Cinco Puntos Press, [2018] | Summary: Twelve-year-old Guero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018027137| ISBN 978-1-947627-06-2 (cloth : alk. cloth)
ISBN 978-1-947627-07-9 (paper)
Subjects: | CYAC: Novels in verse. | Mexican Americans—Fiction. | Poetry—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.5.B69 Th 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018027137
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Front and back cover illustrations by Zeke Peña, zpvisual.com | @zpvisual Moving up with the big boys in Boston now. Don’t forget home.
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