02435cam a2200361 4500 611908014 TxAuBib 20221207120000.0 900817s1991||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 90050593 9780679734772 pbk U.S. $9.00 (CAN. $12.00) 0679734775 pbk U.S. $9.00 (CAN. $12.00) TxAuBib Cisneros, Sandra. The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros. 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1991. x, 110 p. ; 21 cm. Vintage contemporaries 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. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Sandra Cisneros' masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery. 20221207. Mexican Americans Fiction. Mexican Americans Chicago. Girls Fiction. Short stories. Literature, Modern United States. Adolescent Chicago. Chicago (Ill) Fiction. Bildungsromane. Vintage contemporaries. TXRHO