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Barely Missing Everything

By Matt Méndez
Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy ISBN

9781534404458

Awards and Honors CPL Best Books - 2019
Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl High School 2020-2021

Barely Missing Everything

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CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS

Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Alcohol Abuse,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Drug Use/Abuse,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Marijuana Use,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Mild Sexual Content/Themes,Social Issue: Abortion,Violence: Mild Violence

Juan has plans. He’s going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself—or at least find something better than his mom Fabi’s cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up. He just needs to make it happen.
His best friend JD has plans, too. He’s going to be a filmmaker one day, like Quinten Tarantino or Guillermo del Toro (NOT Steven Spielberg). He’s got a camera and he’s got passion—what else could he need?
Fabi doesn’t have a plan anymore. When you get pregnant at sixteen and have been stuck bartending to make ends meet for the past seventeen years, you realize plans don’t always pan out, and that there some things you just can’t plan for…
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