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Short Stories
Gallo, Donald, ed. Join In :
Multiethnic Short Stories By Outstanding Writers For Young Adults.
1993. (YA Fiction Stories Gallo.D)
Seventeen authors wrote these stories especially
for this collection featuring teenagers in America from various ethnic
backgrounds.
Mazer, Anne, ed. America
Street : A Multicultural Anthology Of Stories. 1993. (YA Fiction
Stories Mazer.A)
Among the 14 short stories in this collection are
works by Latino authors Francisco Jimenez, Nicholasa Mohr, and Gary Soto. In
"The Wrong Lunch," a Latina
and her friend try to share a Passover school lunch; in "The No-Guitar
Blues," Fausto decides he must learn to play the guitar after seeing the
group Los Lobos on TV; and in "The Circuit," a young boy describes
the lives of his family of migrant workers.
Ortiz Cofer, Judith,
ed. Riding
Low On The Streets Of Gold : Latino Literature For Young Adults.
2003. (YA Fiction Stories Ortiz.J)
This collection contains stories and poems about
the daily experiences of Latino youth, capturing their struggles with
relationships, authority figures, and identity.
Rice, David. Crazy Loco :
Stories. 2003. (YA Fiction Rice.D 2003)
A collection of nine stories about Mexican
American kids growing up in the Rio Grande
Valley of southern Texas. Meet Loco, a dog with a passion for
firecrackers. And Pedro, an altar boy forced to learn a hard lesson from two of
the toughest, oldest men ever to serve the Lord. Jordan and Todd are two boys
from California who don't know what they're in
for when they push their Texas
cousins a little too far. Loosely based on the author's own childhood in south Texas, this story
collection is a moving whirlwind of humor and insight-brash, tender, and full
of the unexpected.
Saldaña, René. Finding Our
Way. 2003. (YA Fiction Salda.R)
A powerful collection of stories about young
adults living on the border of Texas and Mexico.
Includes teens who work hard, ease, mess up, fall in love, encounter tragedy, but,
never lose their way.
Soto, Gary. Help Wanted :
Stories. 2005. (YA Fiction Soto.G)
Ten stories about a group of Mexican-American
teens who, in their own ways, struggle to find their purpose in life and place
in the world. There is the constant storytelling liar Veronica and her friends
Ronnie and joey, who spend their days as "Teenage Chimps" due to
their feelings of alienation from everyone at their school.
Soto, Gary, ed. Pieces Of The
Heart : New Chicano Fiction. 1993. (Fiction Short Stories Soto.G)
Poet and novelist Soto rounds up the usual
suspects--along with some impresive new voices--in what may be the best Chicano
short fiction anthology to date.
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