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Victor Martinez’s Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida won the 1996 National Book Award for Young People’s Fiction. In powerful prose, it tells the story of Manuel Hernandez, a Mexican-American teenager living in a housing project in California, as he comes of age among a battling family and newly emerging passions.
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is made up of short vignettes about a young girl, Esperanza, growing up in a Latino section of Chicago, dreaming of the life she will have someday.
Anaya wrote two more novels that, along with Bless...
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