The Barrio Kings

"Look, man, real life is not always pretty. Sometimes you gotta do hard things. You have to protect what's yours in this life. No one else will do that for you." Rosario Gomez gave up gang life after his brother was killed in a street fight. Now all he wants to do is finish night school, be a good father and work hard enough at his job at the supermarket to get promoted. But when an old friend from the barrio shows up, Rosario realizes he was fooling himself if he thought he could ignore his violent past.

About the author

William Kowalski is the best-selling, award-winning author of many novels including seven in the Rapid Reads line. His first novel, Eddie's Bastard, won the 1999 Rosenstein Award, the 2001 Ama-Boeke Prize, and occupied the #5 spot on the Times of London bestseller list. His fifth novel, The Hundred Hearts, won the 2014 Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. He has been nominated three times for the Ontario Library Association's Golden Oak Award and his books have been translated into fifteen languages. William lives with his family in Nova Scotia.

Product details

• Authors: William Kowalski
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781554692446
• ISBN: 978-1-55469-244-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 119 mm x 180 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 91 g
• Series: Rapid Reads; Rapid Reads
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature