They Call Me GüeroBy: David Bowles An award winning novel in verse about a boy who navigates the start of seventh grade and life growing up on the border the only way that feels rightthrough poetry. They call him Gero because of his red hair, pale skin, and freckles. Sometimes people only go off of what they see. Like the Mexican boxer Canelo lvarez, twelve year old Gero is puro mexicano. He feels at home on both sides of the river, speaking Spanish or English. Gero is