It's crazy! Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga hauls bricks to help build a giant pyramid in her neighborhood park. Her barrio is becoming more of a ghost town each day since the lard company moved away
Claudia Guadalupe Martinez's debut novel for tweens garnered lots of praise. Recommended by the Chicago Public Library as the Best of the Best in 2008, it's a bittersweet story about death, family, an
Seventeen-year-old Masi Burciaga's barrio becomes more like a ghost town every day, but when she and other youths are recruited to erect a giant pyramid in hopes of attracting tourists, she wonders ab