The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango StreetHere is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and best selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children and their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, "The House on Mango Street" has entered the canon of coming of age classics even as it depicts a new American landscape. Sometimes

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award - Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time

seeks a way to save Tova from the visions of fire that engulf her dreams

As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows

In a love story that evokes the blues

characters

picture book series stars a young Asian girl who tours her rooftop garden with her mom to explore the fruits and vegetables growing there

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite

to the ominous atmosphere of the Laughing Mountain

or danced until dawn

By focusing on racism perpetrated by communities outside those of White non-Latino people

Those not surprised that we were there

A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century