The Water's Edge
Ernesto and the other students at Chavez High are looking forward to graduation and starting out in the real world, but many of them, including Ernesto, fear they will wind up stuck in dead-end jobs, trapped in their poor city with no hope for a better life.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: city and town life, schools, coming of age [X], transfer students [X], teenagers [X], high school students, hispanic americans, latinos (u.s.), los angeles (calif.)