Sandra Cisneros
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
From the author of the widely acclaimed The House on Mango Street comes a story collection of breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When she unearths a letter in a closet, Corina finds the memories of her days spent in Paris rushing back as she remembers her intense friendships with two women with whom she fell out of touch and out of mind.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A book of essays spanning the author's career a[nd] reflecting upon the various homes she's lived in around the world"--
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango...
14) Vintage Cisneros
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Evoking her own Latina experience, an introduction to the work of the acclaimed author features excerpts from The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, poetry from My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman, and short fiction from Woman Hollering Creek.
15) Carmelo
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
When she unearths a letter in a closet, Corina finds the memories of her days spent in Paris rushing back as she remembers her intense friendships with two women with whom she fell out of touch and out of mind.
Author
Publisher
VINTAGE ESPAÑOL
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
La gran aclamada colección de cuentos de Sandra Cisneros, autora de La casa en Mango Street y ganadora del PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature 2018, está ahora disponible en español. El arroyo de la llorona y otros cuentos le da vida a una asombrosa variedad de personajes y, como La casa en Mango Street, promete convertirse en un libro apreciado por lectores alrededor del mundo.