mexican american families

Collection of autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jimenez, who at the age of four illegally crossed the border with his family in 1946.

"When Lincoln Loud's close friend Ronnie Anne and her brother Bobby Santiago moved away from Royal Oaks to the Big City, they had no idea that they were about to start an exciting new chapter in their lives, while living in an apartment above their abuelo's Mercado. Together with their mom, Maria, they are adapting from going to a family of three in Royal Oaks to living with their whole extended family, headed by the kids' abuelos, Hector and Rosa, in the big city"--OCLC.

Francisco Jimenez chronicles the experiences he had after his family left Mexico for California when he was just a child.

Weaves the parallel stories of two Mexican-American families and two countries. Describes the volatile bootlegger who would become the author's father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother.

Collection of Spanish and English poems celebrating the connections children share with their families, communities, and all living things.

Collections of 12 autobiographical stories by Santa Clara University professor Francisco Jimenez, who at the age of four, illegally crossed the border with his family in 1947.

Francisco Jimenez chronicles the experiences he had after his family left Mexico for California when he was just a child.

Presents a collection of poems, in Spanish and English, celebrating family, community, and the power of imagination.

"In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader. Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home."--Provided by publisher.

The story of Soveida Dosamantes, a waitress who has worked for thirty years in a Mexican restaurant in the rural Southwest.