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The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros.

Cisneros, Sandra, (author.).

Summary:

For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0679734775
  • ISBN: 9780679734772
  • Physical Description: x, 110 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: First Vintage contemporaries edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1991.

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Formatted Contents Note:
The house on Mango Street -- Hairs -- Boys & girls -- My name -- Cathy queen of cats -- Our good day -- Laughter -- Gil's furniture bought & sold -- Meme Ortiz -- Louie, his cousin & his other cousin -- Marin -- Those who don't -- There was an old woman she had so many children she didn't know what to do -- Alicia who sees mice -- Darius & the clouds -- And some more -- The family of little feet -- A rice sandwich -- Chanclas -- Hips -- The first job -- Papa who wakes up tired in the dark -- Born bad -- Elenita, cards, palm, water -- Geraldo no last name -- Edna's Ruthie -- The Earl of Tennessee -- Sire -- Four skinny trees -- No speak English -- Rafaela who drinks coconut & papaya juice on Tuesdays -- Sally -- Minerva writes poems -- Bums in the attic -- Beautiful & cruel -- A smart cookie -- What Sally said -- The monkey garden -- Red clowns -- Linoleum roses -- The three sisters -- Alicia & I talking on Edna's steps -- A house of my own -- Mango says goodbye sometimes.
Target Audience Note:
870L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.5 3 20914.

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Subject:
Mexican Americans > Fiction.
Hispanic Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction.
Girls > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction.
Girls.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Coming-of-age fiction
Short stories.
Fiction.

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