When Miata leaves her skirt that she is to wear in a dance performance on the school bus, she needs all her wits to get it back without her parents' finding out that she has again lost something.

Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood. Lincoln Mendoza remains loyal to his former school's basketball team, even after he moves from the barrio to the suburbs and plays for his new school's team.

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

Twenty-one poems about growing up in an Hispanic neighborhood, highlighting the delights in such everyday items as sprinklers, the park, the library, and pomegranates.