Independent Reading Suggested Books for The House on Mango Street
Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (750L)
- Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams (670L)
- Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles (780L)
- They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles (710L)
- Yes! We Are Latinos: Poems and Prose about the Latino Experience by Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy, David Diaz (600L)
Non-Fiction Texts with Aligned Themes and Topics
- The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande (800L)
- Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth by Latino American Youth Center
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