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returns to the world of Garden Heights in a story about an aspiring teen rapper

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Winner of the 2009 Coretta Scott King Author Award * Winner of the 2009 Sibert Medal

The Mission LOWER GRADE Now her characters want aA vibrant neighborhood in transition. Dick Evans captures the pulse of life in the Mission District, the San Francisco neighborhood known for its murals and Latin American cultureand more recently for its rapid gentrification. Intimate, colorful images depict a place filled with diverse residents, stately Victorian houses, hand painted store signs, Carnaval dancers, Da de los Muertos celebrants, political activists, and its namesake, Mission Dolores