BOTH my kids and I enjoyed reading The First Rule of Punk so much we decided to have a mini family book club about it. TFROP is the story of Maria Luisa (or Malu as she prefers) who moves with her mother (SuperMexican, academic) away from her Dad (white, record-store owning, ageing punk) to Chicago.
How Malu copes with a new high school, meeting other Mexican-American kids for the first time and finds her own friendship group and identity really resonated with my own kids who are also of diverse heritage. And Malu is just a great character, feisty, impulsive and secure enough in her own punk Mexican identity to make her own zines (which punctuate the text delightfully) dress in her own zany style, wear punked-up make-up and dye her hair green despite her mother’s very understandable hand-wringing…
We turned our kitchen into Calaca, the coffee-shop Malu hangs out at, ordered drinks from our waitress (yours truly) and made our own zines while discussing the book and what we loved about it. And (of course) we played our own punk playlist.
There is a great interview with Celia Perez here together with her own playlist! Highly recommended 9+
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This one is on my wishlist – glad to hear it’s a great read!
It is so much fun! Pleased it won a Pura Belpre honour, too!