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Social life and customs
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A Summer LifeThe poet recreates the life he experienced as a Chicano growing up in California's Central Valley. |
B SOTO |
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Silent DancingThe author tells of her bilingual/bicultural childhood. |
B ORTIZ COFER |
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HatshepsutPresents a short illustrated biography of Hatshepsut, first female Pharoah of ancient Egypt; and discusses her early childhood, how she became queen, and how she was able to become Pharoah. |
B HATSHEPSUT |
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FirebirdMark Doty discusses what it was like to grow up as a homosexual, how his parents and siblings reacted to the news, and how he came to terms with his sexuality. |
B DOTY |
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The Endless SteppeDuring World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. |
B HAUTZIG |
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Barrio BoyA personal account of the author's journey as a boy from his Mexican mountain village to Sacramento and of his acculturation through education and experience in the United States. |
B GALARZA |
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Twain's HumorA selection of ten humorous stories by Mark Twain, including "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," and "Journalism in Tennessee.". |
813 TWA |
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WaldenThoreau details his solitary and simple life on the shores of Walden Pond. |
CD 818 THO |
