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Barely Missing Everything
Contributor(s): Mendez, Matt (Author)

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ISBN: 1534404457     ISBN-13: 9781534404458
Publisher: Atheneum Books
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2018014200
Age Level: 14-17
Grade Level: 9-12
Lexile Measure: 800 HL (High-Low)
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" L (0.85 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Latino
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2019 pg. 179
Publishers Weekly 01/07/2019
Booklist 02/15/2019 pg. 53
School Library Journal 03/01/2019 pg. 115
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2019
 
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Publisher Description:
"There are moments when a story shakes you...Barely Missing Everything is one of those stories, and Mendez, a gifted storyteller with a distinct voice, is sure to bring a quake to the literary landscape." --Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down

In the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Pe a, this heartbreaking, no-holds-barred debut novel told from three points of view explores how difficult it is to make it in life when you--your life, brown lives--don't matter.

Juan has plans. He's going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself--or at least find something better than his mom Fabi's cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up. He just needs to make it happen.

His best friend JD has plans, too. He's going to be a filmmaker one day, like Quinten Tarantino or Guillermo del Toro (NOT Steven Spielberg). He's got a camera and he's got passion--what else could he need?

Fabi doesn't have a plan anymore. When you get pregnant at sixteen and have been stuck bartending to make ends meet for the past seventeen years, you realize plans don't always pan out, and that there some things you just can't plan for...

Like Juan's run-in with the police, like a sprained ankle, and a tanking math grade that will likely ruin his chance at a scholarship. Like JD causing the implosion of his family. Like letters from a man named Mando on death row. Like finding out this man could be the father your mother said was dead.

Soon Juan and JD are embarking on a Thelma and Louise--like road trip to visit Mando. Juan will finally meet his dad, JD has a perfect subject for his documentary, and Fabi is desperate to stop them. But, as we already know, there are some things you just can't plan for...


Contributor Bio(s): Mendez, Matt: - Like his characters, Matt Mendez grew up in central El Paso, Texas. He received an MFA from the University of Arizona and is the author of the short story collection Twitching Heart. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Tucson, Arizona. Barely Missing Everything is his debut young adult novel. You can visit him at MattMendez.com.
 
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