When Manny shows up, he feels like the biggest outcast ever. Manny decides to join a gang, all because being a member means getting to kiss a girl. He gets beat up in the initiation, which stinks, but he still thinks it's cool to be in the gang.
Manny Hernandez, a 14-year-old, working-class Mexican American from Fresno, California, is both the narrator and central character of the novel. Manny lives in a housing project with his mother and father; his older brother, Bernardo (known as Nardo his older sister, Magda, and Pedi, his little sister.
The ending of this book is a bit of a mixed bag. We have Manny joining a gang, which doesn't really seem like him instead of trying to support his true friends or coax his big brother into getting a job, now he just cares about fitting in. And making out with girls, of course.
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