description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, but she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: La casa en mango street
titlecomplete: La casa en mango street
characters: Esperanza, Nenny
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Coming Of Age, Poetry, School, Young Adult, Read For School, Classics, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 178423
places: Chicago, Illinois
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: George C. Stone Center for Children's Books Recognition of Merit Award
publisher: Books on Tape