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The house on Mango Street
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Published:
New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994.
Physical Desc:
xx, 134 pages ; 18 cm.
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure:
870L
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A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • 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.

“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review

The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."
Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from. 

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Format:
Book
Edition:
1st hardcover ed.
Language:
English
ISBN:
067943335X :
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 4.5, 3 Points
Lexile measure:
870

Notes

General Note
"Originally published by Arte Público Press in 1984. Reprinted by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1991"--T.p. verso.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Cisneros, S. (1994). The house on Mango Street. 1st hardcover ed. New York, A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Cisneros, Sandra. 1994. The House On Mango Street. New York, A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Cisneros, Sandra, The House On Mango Street. New York, A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street. 1st hardcover ed. New York, A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994.

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