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| Jesse | 
 enlarge | Author: Gary Soto
Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 168749
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0152054251
EAN: 9780152054250
ASIN: 0152054251
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
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Product Description
In this new edition of his first young adult novel, Gary Soto paints a moving portrait of seventeen-year-old Jesse, who has left his parents' home to live with his older brother.These Mexican American brothers hope junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor. Their struggles are humorous, true to life, and deeply affecting. Young adults will sympathize withthe brothers as theycome to terms with what is possible for each of them in an imperfect world.
Includes a reader's guide.
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 Jesse November 2, 2006
In the book Jesse by Gary Soto there are two boys, Able and Jesse. They have to chop cotton until they get better jobs. They make bad mistakes, but they fix them. They decided to chop cotton instead of becoming doctors. They were happy when their cousin, Leslie, came back from Vietnam.
Able saw a girl named Glenda and fell in love. Glenda let him come in her house and then Abal saw a crib and said "Do you have a baby"? Then she said "Yes". Next, Able said "Oh". Then they became good friends.
The book is good and tells that when you get older life is hard. It tells that sometimes what you think will happen does not come true when you're older.
Jesse March 30, 2006
The book, Jesse, by Gary Soto is about a Mexican boy and his brother Abel who are tryinng to go to college and pass. This a completey believable book. It has real life situations that would really happen to mostly Mexican families. They have an abusive stepdad who just drinks and thinks less of his kids, Jesse and Abel. They are trying to get to college and when they do it seem like the whole world is against Jesse, in love,work and college. In fact he notices that society is against the Mexicans in general for work and education. And during these hardships he has to get through somehow.
This book relates to me because of the hardships Mexicans and all immigrants are going through now because of prop HR4437.
In general the prop represents the people in the book Jesse.
just like the prop the people are against Mexicans. Somehow he will get through and so will we against prop HR4437.
A review of Jesse May 23, 2005
Jesse is a story about a young Mexican American boy who moves out into the world with his brother Able. The story takes place during the time of the Vietnam War. The book discusses many challenges that Mexicans living in America face, even today. Jesse gets his money for junior college and food by working in the fields on the weekends, and also selling what other people consider garbage. Jesse is seventeen and is tired of his alcoholic stepfather and life at home, so he moves into an apartment and splits the rent with his brother. Jesse faces plenty of problems with school, girls, bullies, and more. However, throughout the book, Jesse remains a kind and deeply religious with a love of the beach, art, and his older brother.
 New life July 30, 2003
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book Jesse. It was a very different to me to how differ from my culture to American is. Differences is make me think a lot of my past. I think I was had a very easy life with my teenage. I thank to my parants. But I don't remerber I was have any gender for my futures. I thnik the Jesse and his brother had a right choice for their future. And I hope they never give up for there dreams. I think this book is good for the who have no idear for the differens to been a poor or rich. I leand a lot of stuffs alike they have a not much choice of their meal. And they are worked hard and study but still they don't have a enough money for the extra stuff to do as like when they want to go to little vacations because they don't have a car so they have to looking for a ride and some how they never get to there but the Jesse and his brother is still happy to there little vacations I really like to there appreciation so I really recommend to young people and from a differen culture.
Jesse July 30, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Reading Jesse was a good experience it helped me understand a little more on how my ethnicity group had to work to survive. It also helped me get my thoughts cleared about being a successful person. It not only showed what daily struggle Jesse faced but the lack of support from his mother. What I like about the book Jesse was how it showed Mexican children or teenagers working to make a living and to become something other than a field worker. There's nothing wrong with becoming a field it just should be for Mexicans. Mexicans should think about moving up.
What I didn't like about the book was that it really didn't go into detail for me. It need a little more action or adventure to it. It was just tell story after story or situation after situation. A little more action would have made it a great book and not just an ok book.
The reason I would recommend this book to other is because it came from a local and Hispanic writer. Gary Soto writes from out point of view what we go through what we suffer and what we have to detail. Its great to know that Gary Soto is a Hispanic provide. Recommending it only lets Hispanic know that have someone to be proud of.
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