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Author : F. Landa Jocano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Growing Up in a Philippine Barrio written by F. Landa Jocano and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard D. Rios
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781477618790
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Songs from the Barrio written by Richard D. Rios and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories and poems in my book tell of my life growing up in a small Mexican barrio, or neighborhood, in Modesto, California, during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s and how that led me on the incredible path my life would take in becoming an artist, writer, musician and a teacher.
Author : Judith Robbins Rose
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763672351
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco written by Judith Robbins Rose and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With humor and sensitivity, a debut novelist explores the coming of age of a girl caught between two cultures as she finds the courage to forge a new destiny. "Miss, will you be my Amiga?" Amiga means "friend" in Spanish, but at the youth center, it meant a lady to take you places. I never asked myself if two people as different as Miss and me could ever really be amigas. When Jacinta Juarez is paired with a rich, famous mentor, she is swept away from the diapers and dishes of her own daily life into a world of new experiences. But crossing la linea into Miss's world is scary. Half of Jacinta aches for the comfort of Mamá and the familiar safety of the barrio, while the other half longs to embrace a future that offers more than cleaning stuff for white people. When her family is torn apart, Jacinta needs to bring the two halves of herself together to win back everything she's lost. Can she channel the power she's gained from her mentor and the strength she's inherited from Mamá to save her shattered home life?
Author : Margo Porras & Sandra Porras
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714181X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer memories from Oxnard’s barrio written by Margo Porras & Sandra Porras and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural empire running. In decades past, milpas of corn and squash grew in tiny front yards, kids played in the alleys and neighbors ran tortillerias out of their homes. Back then, it was the place to get the best raspadas on Earth. It was a home to Cesar Chavez and a campaign stop for presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. As one Colonia native put it, "We may not have had what the other kids had, but we were just as rich." Through the voices of the people, the authors share the challenges and triumphs of growing up in this treasured place.
Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780833508218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Barrio Boy written by Rudolf Steiner and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1991-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Viola Canales
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 030743401X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Tequila Worm written by Viola Canales and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sofia comes from a family of storytellers. Here are her tales of growing up in the barrio in McAllen, Texas, full of the magic and mystery of family traditions: making Easter cascarones, celebrating el Dia de los Muertos, preparing for quinceañera, rejoicing in the Christmas nacimiento, and curing homesickness by eating the tequila worm. When Sofia is singled out to receive a scholarship to boarding school, she longs to explore life beyond the barrio, even though it means leaving her family to navigate a strange world of rich, privileged kids. It’s a different mundo, but one where Sofia’s traditions take on new meaning and illuminate her path.
Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545281547
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)
Download or read book An Island Like You written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpre award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio! Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.
Author : Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher : Children's Book Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892392032
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book It Doesn't Have to be this Way written by Luis J. Rodriguez and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life.
Author : Marta Morena Vega
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781574781564
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book When the Spirits Dance Mambo written by Marta Morena Vega and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When rock and roll was transforming American culture in the 1950s and '60s, East Harlem pulsed with the sounds of mambo and merengue. Instead of Elvis and the Beatles, Marta Moreno Vega grew up worshiping Celia Cruz, Mario Bauza, and Arsenio Rodriguez. Their music could be heard on every radio in El Barrio and from the main stage at the legendary Palladium, where every weekend working-class kids dressed in their sharpest suits and highest heels and became mambo kings and queens. Spanish Harlem was a vibrant and dynamic world, but it was also a place of constant change, where the traditions of Puerto Rican parents clashed with their children's American ideals. A precocious little girl with wildly curly hair, Marta was the baby of the family and the favorite of her elderly abuela, who lived in the apartment down the hall. Abuela Luisa was the spiritual center of the family, an espiritista who smoked cigars and honored the Afro-Caribbean deities who had always protected their family. But it was Marta's brother, Chachito, who taught her the latest dance steps and called her from the pay phone at the Palladium at night so she could listen, huddled beneath the bedcovers, to the seductive rhythms of Tito Puente and his orchestra. In this luminous and lively memoir, Marta Moreno Vega calls forth the spirit of Puerto Rican New York and the music, mysticism, and traditions of a remarkable and quintessentially American childhood.
Author : Luis Gutierrez
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393088979
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill written by Luis Gutierrez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid, savvy, inspiring, and often hilarious memoir by one of America's most fearless political leaders.
Author : Edmundo Lopez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984633913
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (339 download)
Download or read book My Romance with My Segundo Barrio written by Edmundo Lopez and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widowed mother and her eight children struggle to survive in the poorest barrio in South El Paso, Texas. Juanita Lopez is an insightful, loving mother with a plan. Her plan for success is simple. Her children must work hard and she must guide them through adversities and make them retain their moral and ethical values. Through the eyes of Mundo Lopez, the youngest son in the Lopez family, the story introduces us to the five Lopez Brothers and the three Lopez sisters coming of age in the years before World War II through the end of the Korean War.
Author : Cristina López Barrio
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547661193
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The House of Impossible Loves written by Cristina López Barrio and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate, The House of Impossible Loves is a novel set in twentieth-century Spain and France revolving around a family of cursed women.
Author : Tony Johnston
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780439233842
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Any Small Goodness written by Tony Johnston and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor.
Author : James Diego Vigil
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786778
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Barrio Gangs written by James Diego Vigil and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil identifies the elements from which gangs spring: isolation from the dominant culture, poverty, family stress and crowded households, peer pressure, and the adolescent struggle for self-identity. Using interviews with actual gang members, he reveals how the gang often functions as parent, school, and law enforcement in the absence of other role models in the gang members' lives. And he accounts for the longevity of gangs, sometimes over decades, by showing how they offer barrio youth a sense of identity and belonging nowhere else available.
Author : Victor Lopez
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662458096
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book El Barrio Remembered written by Victor Lopez and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories depict true occurrences reflecting how teenagers dealt with the changes arising during these crucial times in our nation's history. A new world was arising and we had a front-row seat to political changes as well as racial and gender issues. As we traversed these issues of family, culture, and racism, we were bolstered by such things as music and art as well as religion and trying desperately to hold on to our traditional values. We clung to one another and our families as we made our way in an ever-changing landscape; and we progressed, we innovated, we adapted, and succeeded in becoming part of the mosaic that became New York City.
Author : Benjamin Bac Sierra
Publisher : El Leon Literary Arts
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Barrio Bushido written by Benjamin Bac Sierra and published by El Leon Literary Arts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Set in the barrio of an unnamed California city in the early 1990s, BARRIO BUSHIDO narrates the story and fate of three adolescent Latinos who join forces to rob organized crime gangsters. Lobo (wolf) hunts, scheming for street stardom, manipulating his homeboys for his Machiavellian goals. Unlike Lobo, Toro (bull), an ex-Marine, does not plot; he charges full-force at the red cape of life. Santo, the saint of the gang, venerates homeboy, not Christian, ideals. A genuine cholo, he never admits that paranoia and pressure take him to the brink of madness.
Author : Julie Otsuka
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307700461
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Buddha in the Attic written by Julie Otsuka and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed author of The Swimmers and When the Emperor Was Divine tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” a century ago in this "understated masterpiece ... that unfolds with great emotional power" (San Francisco Chronicle). In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.
