Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Alma Ester Cortés
  • Learning to read / Argelia Flores
  • Learned to read at my momma's knee / Carlos Cumpián
  • La mees chancla / Carmen Tafolla
  • On reading: books in my life / Eliud Martínez
  • Holy scripture / Ever Rodríguez
  • Storm's impact one for the books / Veronica Flores-Paniagua
  • Gift of poetry, gift of reading / Irma Flores-Manges
  • The bookcase / Lucía de Anda Vázquez
  • Pocho librolandia; or, yes we do read too / Anthony Macías
  • Un juego de libros añejos / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
  • A set of old books / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
  • Sea fever / Maria Kelson
  • Reading Thomas Hardy / María Teresa Márquez
  • They say that mejicanos don't read / Minerva Daniel
  • In the stacks / Monica Hanna
  • Los libros de mi padre / Shanti A. Sánchez
  • My father's books / Shanti A. Sánchez
  • Reading saved me from the chaos / Shonnon Gutiérrez
  • The importance of libraries and Chicano literature / Veronica Ortega
  • Nena / Vito de la Cruz
  • Revisiting Nancy Drew / Beth Hernandez-Jason
  • Oral interviews from the Chicano/a Readers Oral Project. Introduction
  • Fernando Vázquez / Cuauhtémoc B. Díaz
  • Lupe Rodríguez / Helen Fabela Chávez
  • Reading in the past: personal libraries and reading histories. Introduction
  • El don de Olegario (Olegario's gift) / Carlos Morton
  • Growing up: book culture in the land of scarcity and want / A. Gabriel Meléndez
  • The family library of Miguel A. Otero: an analysis and inventory / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez
  • Colonial New Mexico libraries: 1704, 1776 / Eleanor B. Adams
  • Books in New Mexico, 1598-1680 / Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes.