Off and Running
By Gary Soto
1996
First Published
3.53
Average Rating
140
Number of Pages
A lighthearted companion story to The Skirt and Boys at Work pits fifth-grader Miata Ramirez and her best friend and running mate, Ana, against class clown Rudy Herrera in a contest for class president.
Avg Rating
3.53
Number of Ratings
87
5 STARS
33%
4 STARS
17%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
10%
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Author
Gary Soto
Author · 55 books
Gary Soto is the author of eleven poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry International, and Poetry, which has honored him with the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Award and by featuring him in the interview series Poets in Person. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. For ITVS, he produced the film “The Pool Party,” which received the 1993 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Film Excellence. In 1997, because of his advocacy for reading, he was featured as NBC’s Person-of-the-Week. In 1999, he received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes. He divides his time between Berkeley, California and his hometown of Fresno.
