| Description |
xi, 305 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Fiction: Gospel song / Dorothy Allison. From How the García girls lost their accents. Trespass / Julia Alvarez. Raymond's run / Toni Cade Bambara. Rara avis / T. Coraghessan Boyle. Paul's case / Willa Cather. From The house on Mango Street. The house on Mango Street. Chanclas. The first job / Sandra Cisneros. From A home at the end of the world. Bobby / Michael Cunningham. Bernice bobs her hair / F. Scott Fitzgerald. Indian camp / Ernest Hemingway. Deadman's float / Katherine L. Hester. Flight / Alice Hoffman. Danny in transit / David Leavitt. The apostate / Jack London. Danny's girls / Bharati Mukherjee -- Nonfiction: From Growing up / Russell Baker. From Leaving home. Flossie and the marines / Art Buchwald. From Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers. From Stop-time / Frank Conroy. From Lakota woman / Mary Crow Dog ; with Richard Erdoes. From A place in the country / Laura Shaine Cunningham. From Riding in cars with boys / Beverly Donofrio. From The rice room. The mai fong. Route 66 / Ben Fong-Torres. Testing the memory : an introduction ; Pigeon hunting ; The best Christmas present ever / Warren Kliewer. From The color of water. Black power / James McBride. From Memories of a Catholic girlhood. A tin Butterfly / Mary McCarthy. From Bronx primitive. The movies and other schools. Coney and gypsies / Kate Simon. From Living up the street. Looking for work. Deceit. / Gary Soto. From Down these mean streets. Alien turf / Piri Thomas. From Black, white and Jewish / Rebecca Walker. From This boy's life / Tobias Wolff. |
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Youth -- Fiction.
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Children -- Fiction.
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Children -- United States -- Biography.
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Youth -- United States -- Biography.
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American prose literature.
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| Added Author |
Solomon, Barbara H.
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Panetta, Eileen.
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| ISBN |
0451212967 (trade pbk.) |
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