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Voices in First Person Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity Reflections on Latino Identity

by Lori Marie Carlson

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ISBN13: 9781416906353
ISBN10: 1416906355
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Publisher Comments:

WANTING TO BELONG. WANTING TO GO HOME. LOVE. REGRET. FAMILY LEGENDS. DREAMS. REVENGE. ENGLISH. SPANISH.

This eclectic, gritty, and groundbreaking collection of short monologues features twenty-one of the most respected Latino authors writing today, including Sandra Cisneros, Oscar Hijuelos, Esmeralda Santiago, and Gary Soto. Their fictional narratives give voice to what it's like to be a Latino teen in America. These voices are yearning. These voices are angry. Thesevoices are, above all else, hopeful. These voices are America.

Review:

"While Laura Amy Schlitz introduced younger readers to voices from a medieval village in her recent Newbery Medal winner, Carlson, editor of the bilingual poetry anthology Cool Salsa (rev. 11/94), returns here with a superb collection of contemporary voices from the Latino community. All the contributors are Latino, and a few, such as Gary Soto and Sandra Cisneros, should already be familiar to young adults. While there is quite a range of style and content in these vignettes, they all evince pride in a cultural heritage that celebrates faith and tradition, food and language, and the importance of family."-- Horn Book Magazine

About the Author

Lori Marie Carlson is the author of two novels, two landmark bilingual poetry anthologies, and many other young adult and children's books. Oscar Hijuelos is a first-generation Cuban American and the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He has written six novels, the most recent of which is A Simple Habana Melody. They live in New York City.

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ISBN:
9781416906353
Subtitle:
Reflections on Latino Identity
Author:
Carlson, Lori Marie
Photographer:
Rivera-Ortiz, Manuel
Illustrator:
Morais, Flavio
Author:
Rivera-Ortiz, Manuel
Author:
Morais, Flavio
Publisher:
Atheneum Books
Subject:
People & Places - United States - Hispanic/Latino
Subject:
People & Places - Central & South America
Subject:
People & Places - United States
Subject:
Ethnic - Hispanic & Latino
Subject:
Hispanic americans
Subject:
Drama
Publication Date:
August 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
Young adult
Language:
English
Illustrations:
YES
Pages:
84
Dimensions:
8 x 6 in
Age Level:
12-12

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