Living Up the Street, Gary Soto
Living Up the Street, Gary Soto
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Living Up the Street

Author: Gary Soto

Narrator: Robert Ramirez

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/12/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

Growing up Mexican-American in Fresno, California, in the 1950s and ’60s might not have been easy, but it was certainly never boring for young Gary Soto, his brother Rick and sister Debra.

As this compilation of 21 short stories and articles illustrates, there is no limit to the amount of fun a child can have, or how much he can terrorize siblings and neighbors if his imagination is active. Whether it’s beating the new neighbor kids with bagged cats, or staring into a fan for an hour without blinking while imagining he is a World War I biplane pilot, Soto passes along humorous and compelling life lessons and tales of coming of age.

“A warm, human, forgiving (but never forgetting) account of growing up in the barrio … ”—Russell Banks

About Gary Soto

Gary Soto is the author of Baseball in April, Taking Sides, Puppy Love, and many more books for young readers. He is a National Book Award finalist and a recipient of the Andrew Carnegie Medal, the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, the Tomás Rivera Book Award, the NEA Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award, the California Library Association’s Beatty Award, and the PEN Center West Book Award. He lives in Northern California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by BreeAnna on May 28, 2017

Loved the detail early on in the book but it lacks in the later chapters......more

Goodreads review by Juno on December 10, 2018

The central idea of this novel is, I think, poverty. Gary Soto lived his whole life in poverty, and we see what that means in each stage of life. What I found interesting about this was that he describes it as he was living it; he doesn't add any hint of his thoughts about the situations presently.......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on October 11, 2021

Living Up The Street is a semi-styled autobiography of children's author Gary Soto of his life growing up in Fresno to when he becomes a young married man. Each chapter is split into a story he reminisce during certain phases of his life. As a child of poor immigrants, he is often participating in s......more