Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl: an extraordinary document of adolescence.
D id you know Anne Frank planned to write a book about her time in hiding after the war? What event inspired her wish? And how did her writings merge into the text we have today? Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a classic work of Holocaust literature. But it's also the coming or age story... Read More.
The House on Mango Street: A bridge of unity.
B anned due to the social issues it addresses, The House on Mango Street tells the culturally significant story of Esperanza as she comes of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Cisneros’ work was also among a number of books involved in a censorship suit revolving around a 2010 Arizona law specifically designed to ban a Mexican American... Read More.
Book Bans: a case study in how to push back
W hat’s the best way to fight back against book banning? Activism revolving around Sandy Cisneros’ coming of age book The House on Mango Street is a veritable case study on successful pushback to book bans. Nearly 1,500 individual books were banned in the first half of the 2022-2023 school year. That’s a 28 percent increase in book banning... Read More.
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