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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
These stories follow a migrant family through their circuit, from picking cotton and strawberries to topping carrots-- and back again-- over a number of years.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Comezn̤: It's more than an itch. It's a longstanding desire that will never be fulfilled. And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chv̀ez, it is also a border town in New Mexico whose denizens' longings are as powerful as they are, all too often, impossible.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader in a single weekend. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings,...
8) L.A. weather
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize. Canícula--the dog days--a particularly intense part of the summer when most cotton is harvested in South Texas. In Norma Cantú's fictionalized memoir of Laredo in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, it also represents a time between childhood and a still-unknown adulthood. Snapshots and the author's re-created memories allow readers to experience the pivotal events of this world--births, deaths, injuries,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xvi, 220 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rocío Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees—the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree. Rocio knows she was born in the closet where she and her sister now take turns looking at the picture of Jesus whose eyes light up in the dark. But at night she enters a magical realm, and in her imaginary Blue Room, she can fly. At first she is...
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