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<b>An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year</b><br><br><b>âEuro²An excellent writer and a marvelous storyteller. . . . He creates a special world on Shepherd Avenue that I loved to enter and hated to leave.âEuro&#157; âEuro"Ferrol Sams</b><br><br><i>From acclaimed author Charlie Carillo comes a poignant, darkly funny, coming-of-age story set in the heart of Italian-American Brooklyn, New York, and the heat of one eventful 1960s summer . . .</i><br><br>Ten-year-old Joey Ambrosio has barely begun to grieve his motherâEuros death when his father abruptly uproots him from his sedate suburban Long Island home, and deposits him at his estranged grandparentsâEuro house in boisterous East New York. While his dad takes off on an indefinite road trip, Joey is left to navigate unfamiliar terrain. Besides his gruff Italian grandparents, there's his teenage Uncle Vic, a baseball star obsessed with the music of Frank Sinatra; a steady diet of soulful, hearty foods heâEuros never tasted, and a community teeming with life, from endless gossip and arguments to curse-laden stickball games under the elevated train. ItâEuros a world where privacy doesnâEurot exist and thereâEuros no time to feel sorry for yourself. Most of all, itâEuros where Joey learns not only how to fight, and how to heal, but how to loveâEuro"and ultimately, how to forgive.<br><br><b>Praise for Charlie Carillo and Raising Jake</b><br><br>âEuro²The best kind of journey, one you don't want to end...funny, moving.âEuro&#157; âEuro"Mike Lupica<br><br>âEuro²In the tradition of Tom PerottaâEuro¦truthful, and hilarious.âEuro&#157; âEuro"Alison Grambs<br><br>âEuro²A literary romp through the minefields of a totally normal, and totally abnormal, familyâEuro¦ I actually laughed out loud and kept turning the pages to make absolutely sure that all worked out at the end.âEuro&#157; âEuro"Cathy Lamb<br><br>âEuro²Carillo has an easy way with breezy prose and likable characters.âEuro&#157; <i>âEuro"Publishers Weekly</i>