![]() He says it's not the Mexicans' fault that the city council would rather spend the city's money on new arts initiatives and a big flashy baseball stadium than more police on the streets. There's too much litter, and too many people look angry. Once you get through the crowded old suburbs where the large Victorian homes sit on the hill and past the rows of cupola-topped row houses, it's an ugly town-a mishmash of 1940s asphalt shingles, multicolored bricks, and gray concrete. The whitest town on earth-or, more accurately, once the whitest town on Earth until the Mexicans moved in. ![]() I paused when I read this (note: I'm reading an e-book and cannot provide page numbers for excerpts): Knopf, I started reading it a couple of hours ago. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction in 2011. King, was named as an Honor Book in YALSA's Michael L. ![]()
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