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Title	Before we were free / Julia Alvarez.
Author	Alvarez, Julia.
Publisher	New York : A. Knopf, c2002.
Paging	167 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Summary	In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Subject(s)	Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas, 1891-1961 Fiction.
	Family life Dominican Republic Fiction.
	Revolutions Fiction.
	Dominican Republic History 1930-1961 Juvenile fiction.
	Dominican Republic Fiction.
	Dominican Republic History 1930-1961 Fiction.
	Juvenile materials. local

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Title	How the Garcia girls lost their accents / by Julia Alvarez.
Author	Alvarez, Julia.
Publisher	Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991.
Paging	290 p. ; 19 cm.

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Title	Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel / Sandra Cisneros.
Author	Cisneros, Sandra.
Publisher	New York : Vintage Books, 2002, c2003.
Paging	443 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject(s)	Girls Fiction.
	Grandmothers Fiction.
	Grandparent and child Fiction.
	Mexican American families Fiction.
	Women Mexico Fiction.
	Chicago (Ill.) Fiction.
	Mexico Fiction.
	Domestic fiction.

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Title	The house on Mango Street / by Sandra Cisneros.
Author	Cisneros, Sandra.
Publisher	New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994.
Paging	xx, 134 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes	"Originally published, in somewhat different form, by Arte Publico Press in 1984 and revised in 1989, and by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1991"--T.p. verso.
Subject(s)	Girls Illinois Chicago Fiction.
	Hispanic Americans Illinois Chicago Fiction.
	Chicago (Ill.) Fiction.
	Bildungsromans. gsafd

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Title	Woman hollering creek and other stories / Sandra Cisneros.
Author	Cisneros, Sandra.
Publisher	New York : Vintage Books, 1992, c1991.
Paging	xii, 165 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Title	Vintage contemporaries.
Notes	"Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1991"--T.p. verso.
Contents	My Lucy friend who smells like corn -- Eleven -- Salvador late or early -- Mexican movies -- Barbie-Q -- Mericans -- Tepeyac -- One holy night -- My Tocaya -- Woman hollering creek -- The Marlboro man -- La fabulosa : a Texas operetta -- R emember the Alamo -- Never marry a Mexican -- Bread -- Eyes of Zapata -- Anguiano religious articles rosaries statues -- Little miracles, kept promises -- Los boxers -- There was a man, there was a woman -- Tin tan tan -- Bien pretty.
Subject(s)	Mexican Americans Social life and customs Fiction.
	Mexican-American Border Region Social life and customs Fiction.

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Title	The meaning of consuelo / Judith Ortiz Cofer.
Author	Ortiz Cofer, Judith, 1952-
Publisher	New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003.
Paging	185 p. ; 22 cm.
Web Link	Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol032/2003004006.html
Subject(s)	Loss (Psychology) Fiction.
	Puerto Rico Fiction.
	Psychological fiction.
	Bildungsromans. gsafd

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