Title: The House on Mango Street
First published: October 1994
Description: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.

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. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.
Subjects: Fiction, Mexican Americans, Girls, Short stories, Adolescence, Modern Literature, open_syllabus_project, Spanish language materials, Hispanic Americans, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Adolescent -- Chicago, Adolescent, Juvenile fiction, Coming of Age, Hispanic & Latino, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Illinois, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, coming of age, Spanish: Adult Fiction, Reading materials, General, Fiction - General, Spanish language, Large print books, Large type books, Hispanic americans--illinois--chicago--fiction, Girls--illinois--chicago--fiction, Ps3553.i78 h618 1994, 813/.54, Fictional Works [Publication Type], Bildungsromans
Places: Chicago (Ill.), Illinois, Chicago