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House on Mango Street and profound book introduces "aHere is Sandra Cisnero's greatly admired and best selling novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children and their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, "The House on Mango Street" has entered the canon of coming of age classics even as it depicts a new American landscape. Sometimes