Marco, on the other hand, is a straight A student who wants to do nothing more than impress his absent father. Isaac knows his dad drinks too much but it isn't until his dad has to pick him up from school drunk that Isaac really starts to worry about how much his father is drinking.
Isaac's parents have recently split up and Isaac's dad is struggling with his alcohol consumption. Isaac is a basketball star and plans on staying more on top of his homework so he doesn't have to rely on Marco so much. Isaac and Marco are best friends and are entering sixth grade. This book was a lot of fun and covered a wide range of topics and challenges, some of which I wasn't expecting initially. I really liked this middle grade novel so when I heard there was a new book coming out by Cisneros, I knew I wanted to read it. I first read Ernesto Cisneros last year when I read Efren Divided. I didn’t feel there was much of me I wanted the world to see.” Drinking has a way of hiding who a person is. “You see, sometimes it’s a lot easier to do things for people you love than it is for yourself.
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