Mexican Whiteboy

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 book was written perfectly. Matt De La Peña pitched every main idea of this book in a really understanding manner. He really makes you get thinking about so many things in real actual life. While I was reading this book, I had to stop. I stopped to think and just try to realize and identify who I really truly am. I feel that this is what this book does to you. It makes you even think about the little things as well in the story. Anyone could relate to this book in many ways. I’d recommend this book to basically anyone because I feel like anyone could relate to this book and find it interesting in its own way.