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Letters from Cuba

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.

Main Author: Behar, Ruth, 1956- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2020]
Subjects:
Refugees > Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants > Juvenile fiction.
Jews > Cuba > Juvenile fiction.
Dressmaking > Juvenile fiction.
Letters > Juvenile fiction.
Cuba > History > 1933-1959 > Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: 255 pages ; 22 cm
Audience: Ages 10 up.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780525516477
0525516476
Author Notes: Ruth Behar, the Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Lucky Broken Girl , was born in Havana, Cuba, grew up in New York, and has also lived in Spain and Mexico. In addition to writing for young people, her work includes poetry, memoir, and the acclaimed travel books An Island Called Home and Traveling Heavy , which explore her return journeys to Cuba and her search for home. She was the first Latina to win a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, and other honors include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and being named a "Great Immigrant" by the Carnegie Corporation. She is an anthropology professor at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(Twitter: @ruthbehar / Instagram: ruthbeharauthor / Facebook: Ruth-Behar / Websites: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ruth-behar; ruthbehar.com; Carnegie Corporation, 2018 "Great Immigrants Honoree": carnegie.org/awards/honoree/ruth-behar)

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