Matt de la Pena's visit to CHS

On Friday, October 16th, author Matt de la Pena visited the CHS library and talked to Mr. Morrison's 2nd block English class and a few students from Mrs. Gemeinhart's Creative Writing class. He shared about the writing process and his experience writing Mexican Whiteboy, the book everyone read. Mr. de la Pena grew up in National City, the setting for Mexican Whiteboy, near San Diego and now lives in Brooklyn where he continues to write and teach. We all had a great time visiting and getting to know this fun, interesting young adult author. Matt de la Pena shared with me after his talk that he really enjoyed his time at CHS and liked how all the students had read his book.

Thanks to North Central Regional Library for bringing Mr. de la Pena to our area.