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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Uchenna, Elliot, and Professor Fauna fly to Cuba to search for a mysterious water serpent that is said to provide and protect the water of the island and has gone missing, causing the island to be plagued by drought.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
This reexamination of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's thoughts on socialism, democracy, and revolution is a must-read for today's activists-or anyone longing to fight for a better world. Fifty years after his death, Guevara remains a symbol to legions of young rebels and revolutionaries. This unique book provides a way to critically engage with Guevara's economic views, his ideas about revolutionary agency, and his conduct as guerrilla commander and government...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1960, twelve-year-old Victoria's family leaves Cuba and seeks refuge in Miami, and when Victoria's best friend and cousin Jackie makes the trip alone, the reunited girls attempt to bring the rest of their family to safety.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2019, newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba to care after her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
14) La selva
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
195 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Charlie Hernández volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling back in time to 1950s Cuba to stop a mysterious incident that will eventually destroy the Land of the Living, Charlie, Violet and Raúl are pursued by an unspeakable evil as they scour the mountain rainforests of Havana for clues to untangle the past, present and future.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies unexpectedly of cancer, a Chinese American writer and journalist weaves together the story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.
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