Cisneros, Sandra.
The House on Mango Street
. New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1991. Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. It is told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence and sincerity.
Jimenez, Francisco.
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.
Lomas Garza, Carmen.
In My Family/En Mi Familia
. San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 1996. The author, who is an artist, describes, in bilingual text and bright-colored illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.
Soto, Gary.
Petty Crimes
. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. A collection of short stories about Mexican American youth growing up in California's Central Valley.
Vega, E.J. "Translating Grandfather's House."
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States.
New York: Fawcett Books, 1994. This bilingual poem, as well as other poems in this collection, reflects on the experience of a Latin American youngster.
