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      THEY CALL ME

      GÜERO

      THEY CALL ME

      GÜERO

      A BORDER KID’S POEMS

       by DAVID BOWLES

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      They Call me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems. Copyright © 2018 by David Bowles. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written consent from the publisher, except for brief quotations for reviews. For further information, write Cinco Puntos Press, 701 Texas Avenue, El Paso, TX 79901; or call 1-915-838-1625.

      “Border Kid” first appeared in Here We Go: A Poetry Friday Power Book (Princeton, NJ: Pomelo Books, 2017), edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. It was then reprinted in the Journal of Children’s Literature, 43(1), p. 16, 2017.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Bowles, David (David O.), author.

      Title: They call me Guero : a border kid’s poems / David Bowles.

      Description: First edition. | El Paso, Texas : Cinco Puntos Press, [2018] | Summary: Twelve-year-old Guero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018027137| ISBN 978-1-947627-06-2 (cloth : alk. cloth)

      ISBN 978-1-947627-07-9 (paper)

      Subjects: | CYAC: Novels in verse. | Mexican Americans—Fiction. | Poetry—Fiction.

      Classification: LCC PZ7.5.B69 Th 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018027137

      Designed by Michelle Lange, Whack Publications

       Front and back cover illustrations by Zeke Peña, zpvisual.com | @zpvisual Moving up with the big boys in Boston now. Don’t forget home.

      CONTENTS

       Border Kid

       Borderlands

       Checkpoint

       Our House

       Pulga Pantoum

       Fingers & Keys

       Lullaby

       Learning to Read

       Nagual

       Bottle Rocket Battle

       First Day of Seventh Grade

       Los Bobbys, or the Bookworm Squad

       They Call Me Güero

       Ms. Wong & the Rabbit

       Trickster

       Birthday Medley

       Sundays

       Records

       Variedad Musical

       La Mano Pachona

       Mischief

       Confession

       Thoughts at Mass

       The Newcomer

       Christmas Concrete

       Uncle Joe’s History Lessons

       Tamalada

       Food for Each Season

       The Gift

       Answering the Bully

       Joanna la Fregona

       Neighborhoods

       Valentine Texts

       Movies

       Remedios y Rarezas

       Cascarón War

       La Lechuza Outside My Window

       Ballad of the Mighty Tlacuach

       Playoff Game

       Spanish Birds

       Mis otros abuelos

       Wedding in Monterrey

       Losing Puchi

       Wheels