Mexican White Boy is a multicultural book that portrays the life of a Hispanic/American boy named Danny . We had choice books to read. I had chosen Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena.

Mexican White Boy is a multicultural book that portrays the life of a Hispanic/American boy named Danny who finds himself trying to figure out his own self-identity. Amongst white boys he is considered Mexican while among his own family he feels white because he can barely speak in Spanish. When i first seen the cover it had caught my eye. Danny a son of an American mother and a Hispanic father.

Also By Matt De La Peña. For the de la Peñas, my endless inspiration. White tank top and long flowing green skirt

Also By Matt De La Peña. y especialmente mi abuelita. Natividad Burgos-de la Peña). Danny Lands in National City. White tank top and long flowing green skirt. She calls after the little boy in Spanish, motions for him to stay off the lawn of a neighboring house, but when the boy suddenly plops down on his diaper in somebody’s carefully manicured flower bed, all she does is laugh. She picks the boy up, brushes off his bottom and leads him back to her beige towel. Danny gets a strange feeling in his stomach. He wonders since she’s light-skinned if she has a white mom, too. Like he does.

Matt de la Peña has done the impossible; fired a perfect fastball on the low inside corner and hit a towering home .

Matt de la Peña has done the impossible; fired a perfect fastball on the low inside corner and hit a towering home run at the same time. A tough, funny, edgy, hopeful story about friendship under fire and love in its true sense. -Chris Crutcher, author of Deadline and Whale Talk. shows that no matter what obstacles you face, you can still reach your dreams with a positive attitude. Both boys deal with absent fathers and Danny deals with his identity crisis of being half-white and half-Mexican, especially when he falls in love with a young girl who only speaks Spanish, something he never learned.

Mexican Whiteboy (2008). Authors: Matt De La Pena. At Sweetwater High he struck out a Mexican dude named Rafael. At Chula Vista he whiffed a tall white guy named Gary Sutterfield. At San Diego High he overpowered a muscle-head black kid named Ernest. Uno lays down his signs, and then Danny shuts off his mind and deals. Nobody has even touched him in four hustles. But after today’s hustle he’s ended up at Tony’s Barbecue with Uno and Uno’s dad.

Matthew de la Peña is an American writer of children's books who specializes in novels for young adults. He won the Newbery Medal in 2016 for his book Last Stop on Market Street. A San Diego, California native, Matt de la Peña received his BA from University of the Pacific which he attended on a basketball scholarship. He then received his MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University.

Matt de la Peña's critically acclaimed novel is an intimate and moving story that offers hope to those who least . Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Peña's Mexican WhiteBoy is a story of friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions. Danny's tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot.

Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Pe a's Mexican WhiteBoy is a story of friendship, acceptance, and the struggle to find your identity in a world of definitions. Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot.

Mexican WhiteBoy is a 2008 novel by Matt de la Peña. De la Peña drew on his own adolescent passion for sports in developing his main character Danny, a baseball enthusiast. The novel, which is set in San Diego, uses Spanglish and has a bicultural theme. Danny Lopez, the protagonist, is a outgoing young teenager from San Diego who attends Leucadia Prep. It has a majority of white children and he feels different from them even though he has only a slightly darker skin tone.

While Danny's self-inflicted wounds are physical manifestations of his identity crisis, de la Peña depends too heavily on the absent-parent motif for emotional justification. Danny's internal voice occasionally grates, but the earnest emotions portrayed in his imagined letters to his father easily correct for this. Danny’s sophomoric plan to find his missing dad reflects a balance between idealism and stupidity, especially since astute readers will quickly deduce the whereabouts of his father. While Danny’s self-inflicted wounds are physical manifestations of his identity crisis, de la Peña depends too heavily on the absent-parent motif for emotional justification.