Cisneros, Sandra.
Summary: A girl describes how each person in the family has hair that looks and acts different, Papa's like a broom, Kiki's like fur, and Mama's with the sweet smell of bread before it's baked
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Set Spanish Cisneros 1994Cisneros, Sandra.
Summary: The word "orphan" might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like "a glove left behind at the bus station." What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CISAlvarez, Julia
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH ALVCall number: YA 468 SPANISH
Cisneros, Sandra
Summary: "An enchanting story about a writer remembering her short time in Paris and her reflections on friendships, relationships, and her younger self in a beautiful dual-language edition. Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A city with a vibrant literary and artistic expatriate community. Corina--nicknamed Puffina--is a young writer hoping to find that idealized community, but when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2021