House on Mango Street #1

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Across
  1. 3. Esperanza’s dream is to have this thing of her own one day
  2. 4. Esperanza’s name means “hope,” but in Spanish it also means ____
  3. 6. Esperanza’s name means “hope” in this language
  4. 8. The girls laugh together at a house that looks like a
  5. 12. Esperanza’s new friends who buy a bike with her
  6. 14. Meme’s dog has ____ names
  7. 15. Lucy’s sister
  8. 17. Esperanza’s great-grandmother was a woman who never had a chance to live her own ____
  9. 18. The man in Louie’s story who drives a stolen ___
  10. 19. Esperanza feels she doesn’t belong and wants to ____ Mango Street someday
  11. 20. Esperanza feels connected to Nenny when they both laugh the ____
  12. 22. The color of Esperanza’s house
  13. 24. Esperanza describes her house as small and ____
  14. 27. The street where Esperanza’s family lives
  15. 28. The kind of store where Esperanza sees a golden music box
  16. 29. Meme Ortiz lives in Cathy’s old ____
  17. 30. The neighborhood Esperanza moves into is in this city
  18. 31. Esperanza’s other brother
  19. 32. The junk shop is always ___ inside
  20. 35. The place where Esperanza and her family once lived before Mango Street
  21. 36. Esperanza’s little sister
  22. 37. Cathy’s family is moving because they say the neighborhood is becoming like this
  23. 38. Louie’s cousin crashes the car into a ___
Down
  1. 1. Meme’s real name
  2. 2. The girls wave as the police take Louie’s cousin
  3. 5. Meme won the neighborhood ____ climbing contest
  4. 7. Esperanza’s mother’s hair smells like thus
  5. 9. The Queen of Cats
  6. 10. The old man who owns the junk shop
  7. 11. The speeding car in Louie’s story gets chased by the
  8. 13. Gil’s Furniture store sells ___ items
  9. 16. The book’s narrator and main character
  10. 21. The friend who lives in Cathy’s old house
  11. 23. The number of floors in Esperanza’s house
  12. 24. The neighborhood cat lover
  13. 25. Esperanza wants to rename herself to sound more _____
  14. 26. The sound that fills the junk shop when the light flickers
  15. 30. Esperanza’s two brothers
  16. 33. The girls buy this together and ride it around the block
  17. 34. Esperanza feels embarrassed by her small and run-down ___