Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood

Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults 2005
-Young Adult Library Services Association

A young adult novel Latino-style-the year is 1969. America is at war 'Hollywood' is a dirt-poor Chicano barrio in small town America and Sammy and Juliana about to head into their senior year are in love.

Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood is a Chicano ode to survival. In so many ways in so many of the characters' lives I see images of riding out the storms of youth of a cultural revolution of war and of death. But of love too: lost love found love the love for friends and family for place. What else is there to chase after?
-René Saladaña Jr. author of Finding our Way and The Jumping Tree



From the Compact Disc edition.