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Mexican Whiteboy

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Have you ever felt like someone doesn’t want to accept who you are? A sixteen year old boy named Danny Lopez had the same problem. Danny is Hispanic/American and throughout the story he is trying to find out who he really is. His father from his Mexican side left him and Danny wants to find out where he stands in life. When he’s around white people from his school, they always assume he is a Mexican. But when he’s around his own Mexican family from his dad's side they feel he is white because he can’t speak Spanish. When struggling with his culture, Danny leans to baseball to help him escape all the assumptions on him about his racial and ethnic culture. Throughout his rough times though, he finds out his father's disappearance is more complicating than he thought it already was. This is a young adult fiction novel called Mexican Whiteboy and it is written by Matt De La Peña. He wrote the books, I Will Save You, The Living, The Hunted, etc. In my opinion, everything in this b