Prizefighter en Mi Casa
by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
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Author: E.E. Charlton-TrujilloEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2006-08-08
ISBN: 0385733259
Number of pages: 224
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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Book Review: This tender and sympathetic story will awaken your inner prizefighter.
Summary: 5 Stars
Twelve year old Chula, her brother, parents and Abuela are Mexicans who live in poverty in South Texas. Things get worse when her father, who had been a drunk, had a car accident that leaves him in a wheelchair incapable of working, and Chula with a debilatating head injury that results in epilepsy. The father squanders the very last of the family's money on backing an illegal prizefight with the mythical Dark One, El Jefe, against Golden Gloves, a local promising young white fighter from the rich side of town. Since the accident, Chula has been an outcast because of her epilepsy, disfigurement and poor accomplishments in school. And although she and all the neighbors are scared to death of the prizefighter and his spooky reputation of killing a man, Chula and the prizefighter become tender friends. Yes, the prizefighter killed someone, yes the fight with Golden Gloves ends as horribly as you can imagine, and yes, the prizefighter in Chula's casa helps her to find the prizefighter within herself. A concise, inspiring story full of the awful grit of a family struggling against tense and powerful odds.
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Twelve-year-old Chula Sanchez isn’t thin, isn’t beautiful, and because she’s Mexican, isn’t popular in her south Texas town. And now that a car accident has left her father paralyzed and her plagued with seizures, she is poor. But Chula’s father is determined to pull his family out of debt. He sends for El Jefe—the most revered prizefighter in Mexico. Chula’s father hopes that with steel-pipe arms and fists like pit bulls, El Jefe will win the local illegal boxing matches and bring home much-needed money. But El Jefe—a man who many see as a monster—only brings confusion to a home that is already filled with problems. And now Chula must decide for herself whether good and bad can reside in one person and whether you can have strength in your heart when your fists have none.Ages 9-12 Books
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