“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto is about a boy named Victor Rodriguez, and his first day of school in seventh grade. It is realistic-fiction short story. The people/children that might like this short story are people that don’t like to change, people in seventh grade, or people who have just started a new school year and feel uncomfortable. This particular short story is a really good piece for the genre because of the way it expresses the feeling of a seventh grader. It is told in a third person limited point of view. It has some spanish words like raza-style and saludo de vato which is a Spanish gesture for greeting friends and has ese which means man in Spanish.t has other english words like conviction which means belief and sheepishly meaning
