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Luna Triste Press
Front Cover design: Anais Adelita Hernandez
Back cover and interior art: Mariah Yager
Teaching in Tough Places:
A Teaching life with gangs, delinquents & high-risk youth
Maestro de Delincuentes:
Enseñanzas de una vida educando pandilleros y jovenes perdidos
"A necessary read for anyone serious about youth and the transformative power of education."
Luis Rodriguez, Los Angeles Poet Laureate and author of "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A."
Teaching in Tough Places and its Spanish version Maestro de Delincuentes follows two schools at the height of the gang era. Arturo Hernandez-Sametier recounts beautiful, harrowing stories of transformation when one school in South Central Los Angeles and another on a Native American reservation throw out convention and rethink what it means, and what it takes, to raise their most alienated, violent and difficult children.
Teaching in Tough Places is a revised and updated version of a book originally published as Peace in the Streets: Breaking the cycle of gang violence. Here is the original cover by Peter Tovar
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