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A Reader's Guide to Gary Soto's Taking Sides
On the surface, this book appears to be a novel with a simple plot: What happens when a junior high basketball player essentially goes from rags to riches. Yet the plotlines in the book also deal with bigger issues, such as divorce, cultural differences, poverty, and violence. Indeed, this book has truly resonated with all types of audiences across backgrounds of age and ethnicity.
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These guides to selected multicultural works of fiction are geared to the high school student engaged in the study of great literature classics in the classroom. Their work is considered in the context of each author's biographical background, and links are established between life events and the authors' writing. Literary devices and techniques are explained in relationship to the work being discussed.
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9-10 IL
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9-12+ GRL
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