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Lola

When she has to draw a picture of where she immigrated from, Lola asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Díaz, Junot, 1968- (Author)
Other Authors:	Espinosa, Leo (Illustrator), Mlawer, Teresa
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	Spanish English
Published:	New York, NY : Dial Books For Young Readers, [2018]
Edition:	Spanish edition.
Subjects:	Islands > Juvenile fiction. Dominican Americans > Juvenile fiction. Schools > Juvenile fiction. Immigrants > Juvenile fiction. Dominican Republic > History > 1930-1961 > Juvenile fiction. Africa > Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	When she has to draw a picture of where she immigrated from, Lola asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland.
Item Description:	Originally published in English as Islandborn.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN:	9780525552819 0525552812
Author Notes:	Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and was raised in New Jersey. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, African Voices, and Best American Short Stories. He wrote the story collection Drown and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His debut picture book is entitled Islandborn, published June 2018. He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Bowker Author Biography)