Rodrigo Garcia, a young man with a long record of juvenile crimes is given one last chance to get his life in order at a detention camp for deliquent teens, but it is going to be difficult for him to learn to control his hot temper, especially when he is assigned to room with obnoxious big mouth Jon Chandler.
Photographs, maps, illustrations, and text help chronicle the history of Hispanic Americans, exploring how Spanish, Native American, and African cultures combined in different ways to form the many cultures of Hispanic America.
Seventh-grader Dave Sanchez and his talking gecko sidekick Sticky decide they must rescue an odious science teacher who has been kidnapped by the even more villanous Damien Black, who is masquerading as a substitute teacher in order to steal Dave's magic Aztec armband.
Thirteen-year-old Dave and Sticky, his kleptomaniac sidekick gecko, try to keep a special potion from falling into the hands of the diabolical Damien Black.