书名：The House On Mango Street芒果街上的小屋
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数870
作者：Sandra Cisneros桑德拉·希斯内罗丝
出版社名称：Vintage Contemporaries
出版时间：2009
语种：英文
ISBN：9780679734772
商品尺寸：13.2 x 1 x 20.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：110

The House On Mango Street《芒果街上的小屋》是墨西哥裔美国女作家Sandra Cisneros的成名作。曾获美国国家图书奖，1985年出版至今销量超过两百万册，曾被纽约时报评为“最值得阅读的图书”之一，也是许多国家大中小学推荐阅读书目之一。因为语言简练通俗却耐人寻味，深受全世界读者的喜爱，并被改编为舞台剧。在美国和加拿大的中小学，该书还被作为课堂教材，引起了社会对美国拉丁裔居民的关注。
推荐理由：
1.英语原版图书，语言简单易懂，适合各阶段英语学习人士，就算初学者也可以轻松阅读；
2.书本从以简练清新的情节和语言，揭示各种社会的现状，各个年龄层的读者均可产生不同的阅读感受；
3.陆谷孙评论：“读完原文，很受感染。是诗化的’成长的烦恼’？是’户外’的’喜福会’？是在怀旧中’等待戈多’？是不露声色的寓言化的女权宣言？好像是something of everything. 4.既是童书也适合成人读者，适合家长或者教师与小孩一起分享。

Parents need to know that this coming-of-age novel features gritty material including child abuse, a rape, and men who treat their wives like prisoners. However, it also features a smart, gifted narrator who is determined to “say goodbye” to her impoverished Latino neighborhood. This is a book that is often used in the classroom setting, and parents and teachers can use it to open up a variety of discussions.
The novel has conveyed the Southwestern Latino experience with verve, charm, and passion. — Oscar Hijuelos

20世纪六七十年代，大量墨西哥人涌入美国定居，并形成了自己的群落。美国社会对于拉美新移民的接受程度仍相对较低。《芒果街上的小屋》一书，就是关于墨西哥女孩埃斯佩朗莎发生在自己居住的社区，即芒果街上的故事。全书由短篇小故事组成。作者以第一人称的叙述方式，讲述了主人公日常生活发生的琐事，或者以主角的观察视角描绘了身边的世界。

The House on Mango Street is made up of vignettes that are not quite poems and not quite full stories. Esperanza narrates these vignettes in first-person present tense, focusing on her day-to-day activities but sometimes narrating sections that are a series of observations. The vignettes can be as short as two or three paragraphs long and sometimes contain internal rhymes.

Introduction: A House of My Own 
The House on Mango Street 
Hairs 
Boys & Girls 
My Name 
Cathy Queen of Cats 
Our Good Day 
Laughter 
Gil’s Furniture Bought & Sold 
Meme Ortiz 
Louie, His Cousin & His Other Cousin 
Marin 
Those Who Don’t 
There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many 
Children She Didn’t Know what to Do 
Alicia Who Sees Mice 
Darius & the Clouds 
And Some More 
The Family of Little Feet 
A Rice Sandwich 
Chanclas 
Hips 
The First Job 
Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark 
Born Bad 
Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water 
Geraldo No Last Name 
Edna’s Ruthie 
The Earl of Tennessee 
Sire 
Four SkinnyTrees 
No Speak English 
Rafaela who Drinks Coconut & Papaya Juice on Tuesdays 
Sally 
Minerva Writes Poems 
Bums in the Attic 
Beautiful & Cruel 
A Smart Cookie 
What Sally Said 
The Monkey Garden 
Red Clowns 
Linoleum Roses 
The Three Sisters 
Alicia & I Talking on Edna’s Steps 
A House of My Own 
Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes 

桑德拉·希斯内罗丝，是女性主义代表作家之一。墨西哥裔，美国作家、诗人、教师、法律顾问。希斯内罗丝对于社会阶层和性别阶层具有独特的洞悉能力，她非常善于在平淡的语言中展现社会视角。因为自己的拉美裔身份，她十分擅长运用叙事写作手法，讽刺美国社会与拉美新移民的矛盾。因此，她所著的小说都十分畅销，受到全世界读者的喜爱，并曾获得各种文学奖项，如美国艺术基金奖，美国国家图书将等等。

Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novelThe House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories. Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature. Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counselor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes.