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1 online resource (445 pages) |
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Prologue; Part One; Life Begins; Me. Dad. Trouble.; Funerals and Faggots and Words; Dad and Sam and Me; Fito; WFTD = Origin; Fights. Fists. Shoes.; Mima; The Story of Me (Me Trying to Explain Things to Me); Photographs; Dad WFTD = College; Mima and Sam; The Letter; WFTD = Fear; Sam; WFTD = Maybe; Unwritten Rules; Fito; Sam (and Me); What If; Dad and Me and Silence; Sam; Part Two; Sometimes in the Night; Sam (and Her Mother); Sam. Promises.; Me. And Dad. Talking.; The Story of Mima and Me |
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My Uncles and Aunts (and Cigarettes)WFTD = Prayer; Me (and Prayer); My Dad; WFTD = Nurture? Nature?; Me (in the Dark); Me. And My Fists; Sam; Me and Dad; Between Storms; Me. Fito. Friends.; Me and Sam; Me and Dad; Sylvia; Sam and Me and Death; Part Three; WFTD = Comfort; Dad and Lina (and Secrets); Lipstick; Sam and Me and Something Called Home; Dad and Sylvia; Sam. Dad. Me. Home.; WFTD = Extinct; Me and Sam. And a Word Called Faith; Syliva. Goodbye; River; Cigarettes; Sam (Moving In); Behind; Other People's Tragedies; Mima; Me and Sam (and Pawnshops); Me and Sam and Maggie; Reading Faces |
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On the Road (to Mima's)WFTD = Tortillas; Sam. Me. The Future.; Lists = Future?; Marcos?; Part Four; (Dad) Things We Never Say (Me); Me. Secrets.; Marcos? Hmm.; Cake; Me. Saturday Night. Sam.; Dad. At the Breakfast Table. Me and Sam.; Hangover; Mima. Cake.; Poetry. Poetry?; Dad. Marcos.; Dad (Marcos) Me; Me. Me? Who?; WFTD = Fists. Again?; Sam. Grief. Sylvia. Mima.; Running. On Empty. Fito.; Sam. Awesome.; Dad; Me. Sam. Us Doing This.; A Father Thing; My Dad. the Cat; Hanging Out; Me. Fito. Sam.; Sam. Eddie. Me.; Part Five; Sam. Learning to Talk. Me.; Thanksgiving |
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Sam. Talk. Fito. Talk. Me. Talk.Church; Not Fair. Not Fair?; Mima. Tired.; Mima; Leftovers. Lectures.; By Me; Friday; Marcos; Me. Dreams.; Sam. Dad. Me. Dad!; Sister; Mothers; Fito. Eighteen. Marcos. Adult?; (More) Shit Happens; Friends; Faggot. That Word Again.; Aftermath; Me. Dad.; Fito. Sam. Me.; Fito + Words = ?; Homework. Mothers.; Snow. Cold. Fito. Mima.; Rat; Mima. Me.; Part Six; Sam. Fierce. Yup.; Fito. Sam. Me. Texting.; Ashes; O, Christmas Tree, O, Christmas Tree; Dirt. Paper Bags. Candles.; Midnight Mass; Christmas; Dream; Home; New Year's Eve; Happy New Year ?; Night |
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Thursday. Two O'clock in the Morning.Gone; Grief; Cemetery; Me. Alone. Not.; Dad. Grief. Marcos.; Dad. Me.; Going for Normal; Sam. Me. Fito.; Mom; Salvador; Back Matter; Epliogue; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine |
| Summary |
Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But it's senior year, and suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and realizing he no longer knows himself. If Sal's not who he thought he was, who is he? |
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HL 450 Lexile. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 3.4 12 187746 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 3.4 12 187746 |
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Certain of his place in the loving Mexican American family he shares with his adoptive gay father, Sal begins questioning everything when his senior year arrives and he realizes he wants to know more about his biological origins. |
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"A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"-- Provided by publisher. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Identity -- Fiction.
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Adoption -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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Death -- Fiction.
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Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction.
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High school seniors -- Juvenile fiction.
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Gay adoption -- Juvenile fiction.
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Adoption -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Juvenile fiction.
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Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
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Death -- Juvenile fiction.
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Mexican American families -- Juvenile fiction.
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Adoption. |
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Death. |
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Families. |
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Friendship. |
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Gay adoption. |
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High school seniors. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Mexican American families. |
| Genre |
Young adult fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Young adult works.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. Inexplicable logic of my life Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017] 9780544586505 (DLC) 2016001079 (OCoLC)951214747 |
| ISBN |
9780544583528 : $17.99 |
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0544583523 : $17.99 |
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