Description In the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Pe a, this heartbreaking, no-holds-barred debut novel told from three points of view explores how difficult it is to make it in life when you--your life, brown lives--don\'t matter.
But, as we already know, there are some things you just can\'t plan for....
Juan will finally meet his dad, JD has a perfect subject for his documentary, and Fabi is desperate to stop them.
Soon Juan and JD are embarking on a Thelma and Louise--like road trip to visit Mando.
Like finding out this man could be the father your mother said was dead.
Like letters from a man named Mando on death row.
Like JD causing the implosion of his family.
Like Juan\'s run-in with the police, like a sprained ankle, and a tanking math grade that will likely ruin his chance at a scholarship.
When you get pregnant at sixteen and have been stuck bartending to make ends meet for the past seventeen years, you realize plans don\'t always pan out, and that there some things you just can\'t plan for...
He\'s got a camera and he\'s got passion--what else could he need? Fabi doesn\'t have a plan anymore.
He\'s going to be a filmmaker one day, like Quinten Tarantino or Guillermo del Toro (NOT Steven Spielberg).
His best friend JD has plans, too.
He just needs to make it happen.
Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up.
He\'s going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself--or at least find something better than his mom Fabi\'s cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad.
Juan has plans.
Description In the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Matt de la Pe a, this heartbreaking, no-holds-barred debut novel told from three points of view explores how difficult it is to make it in life when you--your life, brown lives--don\'t matter
