I'm the Official Junior

2/12/18 The title of this book is called Mexican Whiteboy. The author is Matt De La Pena and the genre is realistic fiction. This book is about a 16 year old kid named Danny Lopez. Danny lives in a wealthy white neighborhood with his mom and sister. He is biracial, his mother is white and his dad is Mexican. Throughout the book Danny always thinks to himself if he belongs in white society or Mexican society? Danny goes to visit his dads side of the family in National City, over the summer. While there he goes through many problems such as fights, identity crisis, girl problems and so on. But man good things do happen to him with baseball. He loves to play baseball. You’re gonna have to read go find out what happens. Danny is a very skinny, skater dressing, shy, emo (ish), and a very great baseball player. I know this because according to pages 2, and 19 and chapter 3 pg 16 states, “He’s long and thin with skinny arms hanging down to his skinny thighs.” This quote shows how good

Achieve. I chose this word for very specific reasons. One of them is for baseball, the other is for school and the third is for working out. Let’s start with baseball. In my baseball program there are a lot of kids trying to impress coaches so they can be on the top team. I made the top team last year but that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m going to make I again. There are new kids this year, which means coaches are gonna looking at them to see if they got what it takes. That just tells me I better work my butt off to make sure I’m the one getting the attention. There is only so much time to show coaches what you got and what you can do. With the 36 kids that are also in the 14u group, I have to make sure I do my best. I have give practice my everything so I can achieve the goal of making the #1 team.  My goal to achieve for school is making sure I get good grades this year because I am planning on going to St. Laurence High School. This is a very good school and they aren’t going to