A review by editrix
Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto

I was really into Gary Soto stories in middle school, and these hold up well. They’re mostly about growing up, but they’re also about growing up in a specific place and within a specific cultural milieu and at a specific time (my time; my kids called this “historical”), and the subject/tone/pacing is a good bridge from little-kid lit to big-kid lit, full of complex emotions and situational ambiguity. The audio is great and, if you have a choice, I recommend it over paper.