Download or read book Novio Boy written by Gary Soto and published by Harcourt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninth-grade Rudy has asked eleventh-grade Patricia out on a date, and to his amazement she has agreed. Now Rudy has to come up with the money, the poise, and the conversation to carry it off. This one-act play, by turns heartwarming and heart-wrenching, follows Rudy from his desperate search for guidance from family and friends through the hilarities of the date itself, all the way to its successful conclusion. “To present a new kind of coming-of-age story, a play is the way.”--American Bookseller