We Were Here (41 page)
Authors: Matt de la Pena
We Were Here
is
Matt de la Peña’s
third novel for young readers. His first novel,
Ball Don’t Lie
, was an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults and an ALA-YALSA Quick Pick and was made into a major motion picture.
Mexican WhiteBoy
, his second novel, was an ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society, and a Junior Library Guild selection. He attended the University of the Pacific on a basketball scholarship and went on to earn a master of fine arts in creative writing at San Diego State University. De la Peña currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he teaches creative writing.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental
.
Copyright © 2009 by Matt de la Peña
Photographs © 2009 Nick Haas
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Delacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Carnegie-Mellon University Press for permission to reprint an excerpt from “From a Berkeley Notebook” by Denis Johnson, from
The Incognito Lounge
, copyright © 2007 by Denis Johnson.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peña, Matt de la.
We were here / Matt de la Peña. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89383-4
[1. Juvenile delinquents—Fiction. 2. Runaways—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. Guilt—Fiction. 5. Brothers—Fiction. 6. Group homes—Fiction. 7. California—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.P3725We 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008044568
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