Pancho Sanchez

Pancho Sanchez is the seventeen-year-old protagonist of the story. When the novel begins, Pancho is being driven to St. Anthony's orphanage for older boys after having been kicked out of his most recent foster home for violence. He is an extremely angry, bitter teenager whose only goal in life is the find the man who killed his sister, and seek his revenge. Although his social worker has pulled a few strings to get Pancho admitted into St. Anthony - a school that provides an excellent opportunity for his future - Pancho is ungrateful. He doesn't plan to stay long, and is looking forward to spending the rest of his life in prison for murder. At St. Anthony's, Pancho is assigned the task of caring for D.Q. a young resident suffering from terminal cancer. D.Q. knows he only has a few months left to live and...