The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros.
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.
- Copyright: ©1984
Content descriptions
| 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: | Bildungsromans. Short stories. Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | JUV CIS (Text) | 37810434633797 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
