Category: Latine Authors

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Apr 29, 2020

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Gender, Latine Authors, Literature, Race, Women Writers, Young Adult

Rating: 4/5, good Diverse Reading Challenge #4 This book was originally published in 1984 and it’s been a standard in classrooms. I’ve definitely seen it around, though I was never assigned it. We did read Sandra Cisneros’s story “Eleven” in class in 7th grade, and I loved that story. I think The House on Mango…
The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Mar 16, 2020

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sbhowell

in 4 Star Books, Gender, General Fiction, Latine Authors, Race, Romance, Sexuality, Women Writers

Rating: 4/5, good Diverse Reading Challenge #2 Imagine The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants but make all the girls Latina women in their late 20s and you have The Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes. The Dirty Girls Social Club is about six women who call themselves the sucias: Lauren, Usnavys, Amber, Sara, Liz, and…