The First Rule of Punk

Celia C. Pérez
(Juvenile Fiction - J Perez)

María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican American mother to Chicago and starts school with a bang—violating the dress code and spurning the school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band. Suggested for ages 8–12.


Hispanic Experiences

  • Niño Wrestles the World


  • Alma and How She Got Her Name


  • The First Rule of Punk


  • Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote


  • Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match


  • What Can You Do with a Paleta?


  • 90 Miles to Havana


  • Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras


  • The Other Half of Happy


  • Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match


  • Dreamers


  • What Can You Do with a Paleta?


  • Mango, Abuela, and Me


  • Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras


  • Yes! We Are Latinos


  • Tortilla Sun


  • Abuela


  • Esperanza Rising


  • Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music


  • The Other Half of Happy


  • Yes! We Are Latinos


  • The Dreamer


  • Esperanza Rising


  • Tortilla Sun


  • Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote


  • Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States


  • 90 Miles to Havana


  • The First Rule of Punk


  • Dreamers


  • Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music


  • Alma and How She Got Her Name


  • The Dreamer


  • Mango, Abuela, and Me


  • Lola Levine Is Not Mean


  • Abuela


  • Lola Levine Is Not Mean


  • Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States


  • Niño Wrestles the World