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Mar 14, 2024Vallde7 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This book is an easy and quick read suitable for most audiences. There are a few mature topics, but teens and older should be able to handle it. The House on Mango Street follows a young girl named Esperanza, and shows parts of her life…
Mar 04, 2024
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Nov 19, 2023betsymarzoni rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I have finally read this book thanks to Lisa Casper's Book Lovers Bingo Challenge and wish I had found it decades ago. It is a treasure that I think every adolescent girl would benefit from reading. We follow Esperanza via what Cisneros…
Aug 30, 2023indigo_dog_2033 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Summary: The House on Mango Street follows Esperanza, a young girl living in a small Latino neighborhood in Chicago, as she struggles to find her position in her neighborhood as well as her home and finding a future where she will be…
Jun 27, 2023blue_falcon_2041 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The House on Mango Street is a novel that follows the life of a young Mexican-American girl named Esperanza Cordero. It contains several small vignettes, each telling the story of a different part of Esperanza’s life. The story takes place…
Jun 21, 2023ArchietheAiredale rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The House on Mango Streets tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latino girl growing up in Chicago, through a collection of beautifully interconnected vignettes. Esperanza shows the reader the struggles and joys of growing up in a…
Feb 22, 2023
Summary - “The House On Mango Street” is a coming-of-age novel, written by Sandra Cisneros, that follows the story of a girl named Esperanza. Growing up in a poor neighborhood, her life is documented in several vignettes. As her life goes…
Jan 25, 2023
A Chicago flavored book.
Nov 01, 2022iloveseaotters rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I looked forward to reading this book for a long time, but it turned out to be a big disappointment. Because the chapters and the book itself are so short, I don't have an excuse for not finding it. But quite honestly the book is boring. I…
Sep 27, 2022kxthy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Sandra Cisneros writes the novel about a young Mexican-American girl who lived on Mango Street, Chicago. Esperanza Cordero is a 12-year-old Chicana who has three siblings. One of the three is Cordero’s younger sister and another major…
Sep 26, 2022pacl_teens rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
"The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about Mango Street, where a middle school girl named Esperanza lives. There are tons of people living on Mango Street who struggle financially. Unfortunate events happen, like girls who get…
Sep 26, 2022AarushP123 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Summary: The House on Mango Street highlights the life of Esperanza, a Mexican-American girl who just moved to Texas. This book showcases her life in short stories correlating with each other. The stories are about various aspects of…
Jul 30, 2022red_pig_413 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a powerful and unique story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Told in a series of vignettes, Esperanza touches many readers' hearts as she…
Jun 28, 2022jaind1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The House on Mango Street is a fantastic novel created by author Sandra Cisneros about a young girl named Esperanza who goes to Chicago around the age of 12 and faces many terrible problems such as puberty, sexual assault, and family loss.…
May 20, 2022Hillsboro_JeanineM rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Beautifully written and powerful short novel that would benefit from a second reading. Told in a series of vignettes about a young Mexican-American girl growing up poor in Chicago. Trigger warning as there is child abuse and sexual assault…
Apr 26, 2022ow_ch rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The House on Mango Street is a collection of small, fictional vignettes (short stories) narrated by Esperanza herself, and it covers a crucial segment of her teenage life. In her short stories, she covers her aspiration to have a house of…
Apr 16, 2022jonathan_wang10 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Written by Sandra Cisneros in 1984, The House on Mango Street is a unique novel depicting the experiences and growth of the main character, Esperanza Cordero. Esperanza lives with her parents and three siblings, and is in a relatively poor…
Feb 17, 2022PhantomHugs rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I liked the the way Sandra Cisneros explains what it is to feel "other". We have all felt "otherness" at some point in our lives and to give voice to it and celebrate who we are is what this book is all about.
Feb 05, 2022swong1060 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In the novel, The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros tells a year in the life of Esperanza Cordero, a 12 year old Chicana girl, living in an impoverished area with her parents and siblings. She disdains her living situation,…
Oct 28, 2021ritikaapp8 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Esperanza Cordero, a young Hispanic girl, growing up in Chicago, lives in a neighborhood with unrelenting realities. She doesn't want to belong in a society and have her surroundings hold the Latina to stereotypes. Esperanza doesn't want…
Oct 14, 2021cathyluong rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Summary: This book describes how Esperanza moved into a house located on Mango Street. It tells about a girl who grows up and matures while learning the mysteries of life. This novel is made up of many short, descriptive stories that have…
Oct 08, 2021peacebenow rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Stories of a young girl growing up w/ a loving family and difficult neighborhood. She always wishes for more in life and works to achieve her dreams. On her journey she takes everything in and learns from her friends and neighbors about…
Sep 03, 2021
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is a fictional novella made up of short vignettes to tell the story of Esperanza, a Latina teenage girl. The story is told through short insights into Esperanza’s life, and the experiences and…
Jul 26, 2021dricco rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
“All brown all around, we are safe.” The chapters are brief, but packed with power! The voice of Esperanza is so authentic that by page 20, I felt as if I’d always known her and her life story! And everyone she knew, and everything…
Jul 21, 2021Super_Summer rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A classic coming-of-age book is The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. This book is a little different from others, as it is told in a series of vignettes. It is about Esperanza, a young Latina girl who grows up in Chicago. In the…