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Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
Contributor(s): Rodriguez, Luis J. (Author)

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ISBN: 0743276914     ISBN-13: 9780743276917
Publisher: Atria Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2005
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Annotation: This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Criminals & Outlaws
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2005281606
Lexile Measure: 830(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" L (0.56 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southern California
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 52
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 41129
Reading Level: 6.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 13.0
 
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Publisher Description:
The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.

Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man's life in a Chicano gang--and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.

By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East Los Angeles gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests and then watched with increasing fear as gang life claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and the power of words and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.

Achieving success as an award-winning poet, he was sure the streets would haunt him no more--until his young son joined a gang. Rodriguez fought for his child by telling his own story in Always Running, a vivid memoir that explores the motivations of gang life and cautions against the death and destruction that inevitably claim its participants.

At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Always Running is ultimately an uplifting true story, filled with hope, insight, and a hard-earned lesson for the next generation.


Contributor Bio(s): Rodriguez, Luis J.: - The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriguez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Visit him at LuisJRodriguez.com.
 
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