Wachale!: Poetry and Prose about Growing Up Latino in America

This groundbreaking bilingual anthology, carefully designed for middle readers, is a mosaic of voices demonstrating the energy, creativity, and diversity of the fastest-growing minority group in America. Wachale! (Spanglish for “watch out!”) includes folk tales, stories, and poems in both English and Spanish, and brief autobiographical essays by both well-established and emerging writers representing all shades of Latinos, such as Chicanos in the Southwest, Puerto Ricans in New York, and Cubans in Florida, as well as Dominicans, Guatemalans, and other subgroups. Geared toward ten- to thirteen-year-olds, this is a window to Latino experiences north of the Rio Grande.

• Author
• Ilan Stavans, Rosaura Sánchez, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo, Gary Soto, Alcina Lubitch Domecq, José Martí, Luis Pales Matos, Jovita Gonzalez, Jesús Colón, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Virgil Suárez, Martín Espada, Ruth Behar, Pat Mora, Dionisio D. Martinez, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Willie Perdomo, Michele Serros, Luis J. Rodríguez, Achy Obejas, Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Maria Eugenia Morales, Nash Candelaria, Aurora Levins Morales, Demetria Martínez

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 160

• Publisher
• Cricket Books/Marcato

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780812647501

• Genres
• poetry, cultural, anthologies

• Release date
• 2001