Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Subjects: Grief, Death, Mexican Americans, Reading Level-Grade 12, Reading Level-Grade 9, Violence, fiction, Death, fiction, Fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Children's fiction, Students, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Love, fiction, Violence, Grief, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10, New mexico, fiction

Description: As a Chicano boy living in the unglamorous town of Hollywood, New Mexico, and a member of the graduating class of 1969, Sammy Santos faces the challenges of "gringo" racism, unpopular dress codes, the Vietnam War, barrio violence, and poverty.