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Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, c2009. Print

Awards: Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award-1985

Annotation: Ezperanza lives on Mango Street and through her eyes we see her family life and the lives of the people that live here.



Book Talk: Mango Street, just another street in Chicago. A street full of life, life that is happy, sad, bittersweet and lost. Through Ezperanza's eyes, we learn about all these different lives that live here and also of Esperanza's. She tells herself that when she gets older she will leave Mango Street and start a better life, but she does not realize is that she will come back for the "Ones that I left behind. For the ones who cannot out." Read and find out what happens to Esperanza, her family and friends on Mango Street.


Theme: Multicultural Literature, Hispanic Literature