puerto rican children

When eighth-grader Zach Lopez starts school (where his mother is the newly appointed principal) in Devil's Pass, Minnesota, he expects to be miserable; after all he is a transplant from Los Angeles and the only Puerto Rican in the school--what he does not expect is the sinkhole in the middle of the park with a connection to the "otherside" and a town regularly beset by the monsters who come through it, but he soon learns that Devil's Pass specializes in the weird and dangerous.

Presents a study of barrios written in both English and Spanish that follows Marc as he discusses his heritage, the neighborhood in Brooklyn where he lives, his sister and their friends, and some of the things they do after school.

Contains writings by twenty Puerto Rican authors, including autobiographical recollections and fiction stories, in which they discuss the cultural conflicts they experienced during their childhoods.