Discusses the life and work of the award-winning Texas singer who had begun to popularize Tejano music when she was shot and killed by the president of her fan club.
A biography of Oscar De La Hoya, discussing his youth in the barrios of East Los Angeles, his Olympic and professional boxing careers, and the stumbling blocks he has encountered on his path to success.
The author recounts his growing up in poverty in Los Angeles, his encounters with racism in school and on the streets, and his struggle to overcome prejudice, drugs, and violence.
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
Traces the history of the Chicanos in the United States and discusses their general and individual influences on and problems living in an Anglo culture.
While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tom?s finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
When T?a Dolores, the beloved aunt who has cared for the Montoya family since the death of their mother, announces that she is planning to leave, Josefina and her sisters try to find a way to change her mind.
In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her.
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like T?a Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite.
