The house on mango street / Sandra Cisneros.

By:

Cisneros, Sandra

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2004.Description: 110 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780747560876

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

813.54 22

Subject: Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, 'The house on Mango Street' is the story of Esperanza Cordera, a girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, in a neighbourhood that is neither pretty nor easy. Esperanza, creative and resourceful, knows that she doesn't want to belong to rundown, desolate Mango street and strives to reject the low expectations the world seems to have for her. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous, this is the moving story of a young girl attempting to rise above the hopelessness around her and inventing for herself what she will become.

List(s) this item appears in: Middle School literature in English (Print books)

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book Fiction	"Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis" Central Library	"Dimitris & Aliki Perrotis" Central Library	Book Fiction	813.54 Cis (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		13015621
Book Fiction	Haseotes Middle School Library	Haseotes Middle School Library	Book Fiction	Γ 813.54 Cis (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		13023408

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Told in a series of vibrant vignettes, 'The house on Mango Street' is the story of Esperanza Cordera, a girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, in a neighbourhood that is neither pretty nor easy. Esperanza, creative and resourceful, knows that she doesn't want to belong to rundown, desolate Mango street and strives to reject the low expectations the world seems to have for her. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous, this is the moving story of a young girl attempting to rise above the hopelessness around her and inventing for herself what she will become.

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