Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition) Jamaica she has to get creative

she has to get creative to draw them out

But Jez soon finds out that her family’s true power goes far beyond small charms and elixirs…and not a moment too soon

save a best friendship (why is Beth barely writing back

and spread knowledge

Nasir feels betrayed

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Spanish Edition) Jamaica she has to get creativeGrowing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag toothed traps of English. Here is the gloryand painof being Latino American. Latino Americans hail from Cuba and