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    <body><![CDATA[ The book Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto consisted of 11 short stories. they all are about different characters and stories. Some of the stories were good and some were not. The ones that were good were Baseball in April, seventh grade and growing up. I think that these 3 were the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80872042">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[great book with many little stories..<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reference information:  <br/>Title: Baseball in April and other stories<br/>Author: Gary Soto<br/>Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	Year: 1990<br/># of pages: 107	Genre: short story<br/>Reading level	Interest level: ages 11 – 16 <br/>Potential hot lava: none<br/><br/>General response/re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14000671">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>The book was ok in my perspective because when I choose to read this book I taught that it was going to be a book about baseball a sports book. But when I started to read it, it was a book that had a variety of stories that dealt with youth and daily life events. If the book would be made into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37842434">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was about some intelligent and poor latino children with big dreams. The author, Gary Soto, talks about his own experiences of growing up in California's Central Valley. He also talks about the importance of family and the various entertainments that he enjoyed as a child. This book was in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74439247">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think these short stories will really connect to students.  They range from stories about playing on an intermural baseball team, wanting a Barbie doll but then lost the head, being part a school talent show, and wanting to take karate classes because of a movie.  Good stories for boys to connect ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79987769">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful, clean writing.  The older kid more serious version of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97435.The_Stories_Julian_Tells" title="The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron">The Stories Julian Tells</a>.  Not enough kids read short stories and not enough stories remind you it's the little things not the big things.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55870689">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was kind of sad sometimes, because it was mostly about poor mexicans and hispanics that have to deal with money issues and sometimes... love.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a big fan of short stories so this isn't really my idea of a good time.  But it is a resource for me for multicultural literature.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of young latinos growing up in Fresno, California. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of 11 short stories is a realistic, often humorous look at the everyday problems of growing up.  Though the main characters are all Latinos growing up in the barrios of Los Angeles, middle school students from everywhere will be able to relate.  My favorite is “La Bamba,” about a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14219566">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gary Soto is a very popular author who primarily writes about California &amp; the Hispanic culture.  He writes lots of good poetry, some of which is appropriate for young adults.    ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mexicans cant play baseball with other people so they play by thier selves]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice collection of short stories. Very entertaining.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fine group of stories,gritty and delicate,<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A series of stories focussed on middle-school/elementary school Hispanic children. Stories are good and positive.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Baseball in April:This was a pretty good book. It was a short story I read for summer reading. It is a story about hispanic boys in Fresno, CA. Read it, you might just like it! <br/>One of the other stories in &quot;Baseball in April and Other Stories&quot; was called &quot;Seventh Grade.&quot; I r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2639507">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book base ball in april was good. i liked it because they had short storys an that made it easyer to read. it also made it better because if you dident like the story then you only had to read a littel befor the next story. But i liked that it was about her life an thats why i liked the book bas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35955174">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Re-read this recently and did not like it as much as when I was 10. Not a big shock. A little dated, but good short stories with young Latino characters. Fresno is teh suxor. ]]></body>
    
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