Dark Dude by Óscar HijuelosCall Number: Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3558 .I376 D37 2008
Lexile measure 980; ages 14-up; book level 5.6, gr. 9-12.
In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest.