# The House on Mango Street

**Author:** Sandra Cisneros
**Lexile:** 870L
**Grade range:** Grades 7–10
**Age range:** 12–16
**First published:** 1984
**Page count:** 110
**Genre:** Coming-of-Age Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780679734772`
**ISBN-10:** `0679734775`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-house-on-mango-street
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A young Latina, Esperanza Cordero, narrates a year on Mango Street in Chicago through a series of short vignettes about family, neighbors, and her growing sense of what it means to be a woman and a writer. Cisneros's hybrid of prose and poetic form is widely assigned in middle and early high school for voice and structure analysis.

## Themes

- identity
- poverty
- Chicano/Latina experience
- gender
- writing and voice
- neighborhood

## Content notes

- sexual assault (implied)
- domestic violence (brief)
- poverty

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 12+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 7th grade · New York — [source: NY Next Gen Learning Standards grade 7 aligned reading](https://www.nysed.gov/)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Texas — [source: TEKS grade 7 frequently taught text](https://tea.texas.gov/)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 6-8 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · California — [source: CA CCSS ELA grade 8 aligned reading](https://www.cde.ca.gov/)
- **required** · 8th grade · Illinois — [source: Chicago PS grade 8 ELA core text (Chicago setting)](https://www.cps.edu/academics/)
- **recommended** · 9th grade · Illinois — [source: Illinois Learning Standards grade 9 aligned reading](https://www.isbe.net/)

## Banned / challenged record

Documented removals or formal challenges in at least one school district in 2 states: TX, FL. Source: [PEN America's Index of School Book Bans](https://pen.org/banned-book-list/) 2022-2024.

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