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Title Wáchale! : poetry and prose about growing up Latino in America / edited by Ilan Stavans.

Publication Info. Chicago : Cricket Books, 2001.
©2001

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Fic Stavan Wac 2001    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Edition First edition.
Description xiii, 146 pages ; 22 cm
age Children
Note "A Marcato book."
Jacket art by Kurt Vargo.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-141).
Summary A bilingual collection of poems, stories, and other writings which celebrates diversity among Latinos.
Audience Ages 11 to 14.
Contents Rapido, rapido: Jac$in$the$bag / Rosaura Sanchez -- Kennedy in the barrio / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- My Cuban body / Carolina Hospital -- Talking to the Rio Grande / Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo -- Mexicans begin jogging / Gary Soto -- La Llorona / Alcina Lubitch Domecq -- Rootas: Simple verses / Jose Marti -- Deportee / Martin Hoffman and Woody Guthrie -- Black dance / Luis Pales Matos -- Tio patricio / Jovita Gonzalez -- Kipling and I / Jesus Colon -- Life, trial, and death of Aurelio Pompa / Manuel Gamio -- P'atras y p'alante: Frutas / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- Ricochet / Virgil Suarez -- Coca-Cola and coco frio / Martin Espada -- Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa / Ruth Behar -- Corazon del corrido / Pat Mora -- Starfish / Dionisio D. Martinez -- Oy! What a holiday! / Ilan Stavans -- Sweet fifteen / Rolando Hinojosa-Smith -- Speakin' la voz: Harlem River kiss / Willie Perdomo -- Mi problema / Michele Serros -- La vida loca / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Sugarcane / Achy Obejas -- Lemon story / Alberto Alvaro Rios -- 'Twas the night / Maria Eugenia Morales -- Dear Rosita / Nash Candelaria -- Child of the Americas / Aurora Levins Morales -- Fragmentos / Demetria Martinez.
Language Text in English and Spanish.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Children's literature, American.
Children's literature, American.
American literature -- Hispanic American authors.
American literature -- Hispanic American authors.
Hispanic Americans -- Literary collections.
Hispanic Americans.
Genre/Form Literary collections.
Subject Hispanic Americans -- Juvenile literature.
Children's literature, Latin American.
Children's literature, Latin American.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
Short stories.
Short stories.
Literature.
Literature.
Added Author Vargö, Kurt, illustrator.
Stavans, Ilan, editor.
Other Form: Online version: Wáchale! 1st ed. Chicago : Cricket Books, 2001 (OCoLC)656473477
ISBN 0812647505 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780812647501 (cloth ; alkaline paper)