by Gary Soto · Fondo de Cultura Económica · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789681647230
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«Cruzando el Pacífico» is the young adult novel by Gary Soto, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in paperback (142 pages, in Spanish).
Lincoln, a fourteen-year-old Mexican-American boy, is chosen to spend the summer in Japan as an exchange student. Far from his neighborhood, he stays with a host family and discovers different customs, foods and ways of life; amid encounters and new friendships, he reflects on what it means to belong to two cultures.
It belongs to the A la Orilla del Viento collection from Fondo de Cultura Económica. The edition includes illustrations by Felipe Ugalde. The work was originally published as Pacific Crossing in 1992.
Aimed at young readers aged about ten and up, with an interest in travel stories, adventure and multiculturalism.
