>>It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way: A Barrio Story/No tiene que ser así: Una historia del barrio

ISBN: 0-89239-161-8
31 pp. | paper only | $16.00

Luis J. Rodríguez

A compelling story of a young boy’s encounter with the world of gangs—a world that author Rodíguez knows firsthand. Through his mesmerizing true-to-life story and the illustrations of of artist Daniel Gálvez, we see how Monchi is both attracted to gang life and repelled by its violence. In Spanish and English.