Author:   Cisneros, Sandra
Title:   The house on Mango Street
Publisher:  Knopf    Publication Date:  1994 (reprint edition)
Pages:   134
Paper price: $24.00    ISBN:  067943335X
Type: Fiction      Grade level(s): young adult through adult
Translation notes:  not a translation

Reviewer:  Laurie Willis, Hayward Public Library
Comments:
This is Cisnero's fictionalized account of her own and others' experiences growing up in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago.  She captures the flavor of her ethnic environment, its people, and the ups and downs of events in daily life in a series of vignettes.  These bite-sized chapters, usually three or four pages each, make this an easy read for young adults, and a comfortable way to expose them to Latino culture in the United States.