In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes Oscar Balboa and Valentin Rodriguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two ?strutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar ballad? are the novel?s principal voices as they lie dying. - See more at: http://artepublicopress.uh.edu/arte-publico-wp/product/muerte-en-una-estrella-shooting-star/#sthash.gT2quQIB.dpuf...

The authors "demonstrate how our emergent bilingual students--who speak two or more languages in their daily lives--thrive when they are able to use 'translanguaging' to tap the power of their entire linguistic and sociocultural repertoires. Additionally, [they] present rich and thoughtful literacy practices that propel emergent bilinguals into reading and writing success. The core of this approach is honoring and leveraging the language and cultural...