| Description |
xxiv, 279 pages ; 22 cm |
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To come into a world like this one. Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- From White mule / William Carlos Williams -- From A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith -- From The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Big boy / Jesse Hill Ford -- From Invisible man / Ralph Ellison -- No way out / Max Moran. They, those people over there. A question of class / Dorothy Allison -- Who will speak for Lizzy? / Danielle Joseph -- From City kids, city teachers / Deborah Stern, editor -- From The beat within / Love Shiloh, Young Tay B2, and Anonymous -- Indian education / Sherman Alexie -- Mother and daughter / Gary Soto -- |
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From Children of crisis : a study of courage and fear / Robert Coles -- Optimists / Richard Ford. I took my place, bent my head and went to work. The grammar of silk / Cathy Song -- Cannery town in August / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Field poem / Gary Soto -- Night shift at St. Regis / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Photograph of my father in his twenty-second year / Raymond Carver. Take a stand on high ground. From Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston -- Doing what it takes to survive / Dean Torres -- From Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred Taylor -- The ghost of Fred Astaire / Sylvia Watanabe -- Full circle / Lori Arviso Alvord -- From Children of crisis : migrants, sharecroppers, mountaineers / Robert Coles -- Show and tell / Andrew Lam. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century.
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Poor children -- Literary collections.
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Children of minorities -- Literary collections.
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Ethnic groups -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Coles, Robert.
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Testa, Randy-Michael.
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Coles, Michael H.
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| ISBN |
1565846230 |
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