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31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces," the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.
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58, 58 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Celeste is heartbroken when her grandmother dies, but when letters and recipes begin to arrive with her grandmother's advice and recipes, Celeste finds consolation in preparing the dishes for herself, her mother, and their friends. Includes six traditional Cuban recipes.
Celeste es el corazón cuando su abuela muere, pero cuando las cartas y recetas comienzan a llegar con consejos y recetas de su abuela, Celeste encuentra consuelo en la preparación...
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211 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados ... Soleida huye sola a Centroamérica y se une a miles de refugiados cubanos...
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223 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
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