AUTHOR: Luis Rodriguez
ISBN: 0671882317
Plot Summary: The author's account of his life with gangs in East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley in the 1960's.
Complaints: Violence, offensive language, sexual themes, racism
Banned in the Rockford, Illinois public school libraries. During the discussion, board-member David Strommer called it "irreligious, anti-family, left-wing, anti-American and radical...What's in the book is harmful, ungodly and wrong." Fellow board member Ed Sharp said, "I challenge anyone who knows how the mind works, after reading this book, not to be more likely to assume the lifestyle of a gang person and not to be more likely to have sex in the back of a car."
Solonor Says Ban It Because: Guess those board members are bangin' it now, then...after reading it and all...unless they don't know how the mind works....but they're council members, so that can't be right...I wonder who's car they're messing up. Eww!
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MetroActive Books-Luis Rodriguez