Living Up the Street

by Gary Soto |  Grades: 7-12  |  Lexile 1050  |  Reading Level 6.2

In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. 

His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

Available Teacher Guides, Novel Units, Lesson Plans, & More For Living Up the Street: