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(0)Judith Ortiz Cofer
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A new novel from the award-winning author of An Island Like You, winner of the Pura Belpre Award.
Maria is a girl caught between two worlds: Puerto Rico, where she was born, and New York, where she now lives in a basement apartment in the barrio. While her mother remains on the island, Maria lives with her father, the super of their building. As she struggles to lose her island accent, Maria does her best to find her place within the unfamiliar culture...
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Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio!
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,...
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La nina seria, the serious child. That's how Consuelo's mother has cast her pensive, book-loving daughter, while Consuelo's younger sister Mili, is seen as vivacious-a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation, the other to charm and delight. But something is not right in this Puerto Rican family.
Set in the 1950s, a time when American influence is diluting Puerto Rico's rich island culture,...
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En esta coleccion de ensayos entretejidos con poemas y folclore, Judith Ortiz Cofer cuenta la historia de como llego a ser poeta y escritora y explora su amor por las palabras, su descubrimiento de la magia del lenguaje y su lucha por sacar tiempo de donde no tenia para practicar su arte. Este libro divierte, instruye y cautiva, y sera un recurso inestimable para estudiantes de escritura creativa, asi como una inspiracion para todos los que escriben....
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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When a poet moves into the apartment above hers, young Juliana asks to meet her and together they write poems of tropical birds and a river that flows to the sea, typing out words that change the world, if only for a while.
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A la orilla del viento volume 99
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199 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Un poema y doce cuentos acerca de jóvenes metidos entre su herencia puertorriqueña y el ambiente de los Estados Unidos.
A poem and twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their surroundings in the United States.
7) ¡A bailar!
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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A young girl and her mother put on their red dresses and dance their way through the barrio, collecting friends and neighbors along the way as they go to the park to hear her father's salsa band play.