Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer,
Illustrator : Felipe Ugalde, Translator : Juan Elias Tovar Cross
5th Grade and up
Una isla como
tu
An Island Like
You
Una
isla como tu, Softcover, Spanish, Book, Judith Ortiz Cofer,
Felipe Ugalde, Juan Elias Tovar Cross,
5th Grade and up, 9789681654412,
$8.50
An
Island Like You, Softcover, English, Book, Judith Ortiz Cofer,
Felipe Ugalde,
5th Grade and up,
9780545131339, $6.99
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Pura Belpre Award
Winning Book in 1996 for Narrative
ALA Best Book for Young Adults
School of Library Journal Best Book of the Year
ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio - and this is their world.
Booklist : "[Cofer's] contemporary teenage voices are candid, funny, weary, and irreverent in these stories about immigrant kids caught between their Puerto Rican families and the pull and push of the American dream."
Horn Book : "The Caribbean flavor of the tales gives them their color and freshness, but the narratives have universal resonance. . . ."
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