Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. -- Luis J. Rodriguez - Paperback

The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new introduction by the author.

Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York

Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 10/04/2005
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780743276917

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 41129 / Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 52

About the Author
The son of Mexican immigrants, Luis J. Rodriguez began writing in his early teens and has won national recognition as a poet, journalist, fiction writer, children's book writer, and critic. Currently working as a peacemaker among gangs, Rodriguez helped create Tia Chucha's Café & Centro Cultural, a multiarts, multimedia cultural center in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Visit him at LuisJRodriguez.com.