![]() Soto has also used the term Novio Boy for the name of a cat in his children's story, Chato and the Party Animals. ![]() ![]() Mixed in with its treatment of typical teenage concerns are allusions to Chicano culture, referencing food, music, and radio programs. The play focuses on his concern about what to say and how to behave during the date, obtaining the money to pay for the date, her anticipation, and his family's responses to this milestone in his social maturation. Novio Boy tells the story of ninth grader Rudy's first date with eleventh grader Patricia. The novio of the work's title means boyfriend or sweetheart in Spanish. Soto suggests that this setting is adaptable to any region, as it is written in somewhat simple and colloquial English mixed with some Spanish. Published by Harcourt in 1997, the play is set in a Mexican American neighborhood in Fresno, California, about two hundred miles north of Los Angeles. A one-act play in seven scenes, Gary Soto's Novio Boy is intended for junior high school and high school readers, performers, and audiences.
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