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DANIEL FLORES DURAN

O'Dell attempts a realistic portrayal of the Chicano culture in this fast-paced adventure story [Child of Fire]. He weaves together a fascinating tapestry of fact and fiction in this interpretation of Chicano culture: cock and bull fights, drugs, ghetto gangs, the farmworker's strikes…. The informed reader will find many of the elements of Chicano culture presented by O'Dell to be far off the mark, while others ring true. The teacher or librarian may wish to caution the reader against thinking that this picture of Chicano culture is complete. It is an exciting story unfortunately marred by some of the plot devices and stereotyped characterizations. (pp. 110-11)

Daniel Flores Duran, "Mexican American Resources: 'Child of Fire'," in Latino Materials: A Multimedia Guide for Children and Young Adults, edited by Daniel Flores Duran, Neal Schuman, Publishers, 1979, pp. 110-11.

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1. Introduction
2. Ellen Lewis Buell
3. New York Herald Tribune Books
4. Ruth H. Viguers
5. Walter Havighurst
6. JOHN GILLESPIE and DIANA LEMBO
7. Paul Heins
8. The Times Literary Supplement
9. Betty Baker
10. John Rowe Townsend
11. Richard Bradford
12. Paul Heins
13. Carolyn T. Kingston
14. Jon C. Stott
15. Margaret A. Dorsey
16. Jean Fritz
17. Joyce Milton
18. Barbara Wersba
19. Ethel L. Heins
20. Virginia Haviland
21. Jean Fritz
22. Mary M. Burns
23. Geoff Fox
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25. Margarett Loke
26. Daniel Flores Duran
27. Kirkus Reviews
28. Jack Forman
29. Leon Garfield
30. Jean Fritz
31. Zena Sutherland
32. Francis X. Jordan
33. GEORGESS McHARGUE
34. David N. Pauli
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