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Growing up poor
a literary anthology
By Coles, Robert & Testa, Randy-Michael & Coles, Michael G. H.
- ISBN
- 978-1-56584-623-4
- Publisher
- New York : New Press : c2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2001
Adult/High School This anthology of stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from longer works offers cross-cultural commentary about growing up in poverty in the American land of plenty. The selections represent in part a "who's who" of 20th-century ethnic American writers, from Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, and Cathy Song. Lesser-known writers are also included. Sylvia Watanabe writes about growi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
