![]() It’s a children’s fantasy novel about a girl named Twig and her backyard adventures, with a sweet spotlight on her affection for all her apartment neighbors. ![]() Twig by Elizabeth Orten Jones is a perfect chapter book for new readers but also a wonderful read aloud for those in preschool and above. The theme of how belonging, friendship, family, and community fold into a person’s becoming was both sweet and hard to witness. Her parents have bought their first house but it is not one she is glad for because it is small and run down and in the middle of a crowded Latino neighborhood in Chicago. Cisneros’s book, I remembered others that reminded me of it – books about home, laughter, struggles, growing up in hard times and places, and friendship.Ī House on Mango Street, a good read for students in 8th grade and above, focuses on Esperanza, a Mexican-American twelve-year old girl, but also on her family and her neighbors. It was a hard-to-put- down book.Īfter reading Ms. ![]() It is one of those books that you want to share sentence after sentence with someone and also write parts in your journal. ![]() Written a couple decades ago by Sandra Cisneros, A House on Mango Street is a timeless, beautiful, and very human story (told in short vignettes), full of joy and sorrow. After she read parts aloud to me, I could understand her attachment to this book and her excitement to share it with her class. A dear friend recently gave me A House on Mango Street-a book she was reading while preparing for a new year of teaching 8th graders. ![]()
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