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1) Refugee
Author
Language
English
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JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
NPM - JUV GRL Y
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
MCL - Sydney Taylor Award Winners (2007 - Present)
NPM - JUV GRL Y
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
4) Forest world
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
NPM - JUV GRL X
NPM - JUV HISTORICAL FIC
DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
NPM - JUV GRL X
NPM - JUV HISTORICAL FIC
Description
In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
Author
Series
Rebel girls (Chapter books) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Alicia was born to dance. She's determined to become a professional ballerina. A few years later, Alicia moves from Cuba to the United States to follow her dreams. Then, Alicia begins to lose her sight. How can a ballerina dance if she can't see where she's going? Stuck in bed and only able to practice with her fingertips, Alicia doesn't give up.--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There are two versions of Héctor: the public and the private. It's the only way to survive in communist Cuba--especially when your father was exiled to the U.S. and labeled an enemy of the people. Héctor must always be seen as a fierce supporter of the regime, even if that means loudly rejecting the father he still loves. But in the summer of 1980, those two versions are hard to keep separate. No longer able to suppress a public uprising, the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
10) Carina Felina
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carina Felina is an arrogant cat with an appetite so huge that she eats everything and everyone who crosses her path as she ambles through Havana--until a small crab outsmarts her and saves the day.
Author
Language
English
Description
When unrest hits the streets of Havana, Cuba, Julian's parents must make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation. But when the boys get to Miami, they are thrust into a world where bullies seem to run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 5
Language
English
Description
A brand-new adventure is ready to unfold as Uchenna, Elliot, and Professor Fauna fly to Havana to search for the Madre de aguas. Is this missing creature responsible for the drought that has ravaged the island for months? And why are the Schmoke Brothers' goons driving around Havana, dumping pink sludge into the sewers? the Unicorn Rescue Society is ready to save the day-and hopefully not get eaten in the process!
13) La selva
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Primera ediciaon.
Language
Español
Description
Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
14) The red umbrella
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
16) Coming up Cuban
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Four children from very different backgrounds...learn to find a place for themselves in a world forever changed after Fidel Castro's rise to power"--
17) Water day
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Alternating between 1980s Cuba and present-day Miami, this stunning story of a Cuban American family of brujas follows twin sisters Ofelia and Delfi as they secretly embrace their magical inheritance to stop a serial killer from taking even more innocent lives.
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