Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...
4) Tomás Rivera
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
As a young Mexican American boy in a migrant worker family in Texas, future author Tomás Rivera enjoys going to the library and listening to his grandfather's stories.
13) Americo Paredes
Author
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Mexican American scholar, folklorist, and poet who taught for many years at the University of Texas and wrote the 1958 book "With His Pistol in His Hand."
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"In 1972 Rudolfo Anaya made a quiet entry into American literature with the publication of Bless Me, Ultima. It was the first Chicano novel to enter the American literary canon, and it helped identify Anaya as one of the founders of Chicano literature." "In this collection of interviews Anaya talks about his life and how New Mexico, his home state, influences his work. The interviews explore the importance that myths and spiritual matters play in...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
In this bilingual autobiography, the Mexican American poet Juan Felipe Herrera describes his childhood in California as the son of migrant workers. The author recalls his childhood in the mountains and valleys of California with his farmworker parents who inspired him with poetry and song. A rich, personal narrative about growing up as a migrant farmworker. Herrera relates how he learned to love the land from his father, and poetry from his mother....
.png)