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Author
Series
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
Un viego pescador battala contro el mar y tiburones para traer a la casa el gigante aguja que el capturo. An old fisherman battles the sea and sharks to bring home the giant marlin he caught.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.
Sumario en español: En este recuento chistoso de un folktale cubano, una cucarachita se entrevista a sus pretendientes para decidir quién para casar.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
Español
Description
A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women and witchcraft, women and their men.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this cumulative Cuban folktale, a bossy rooster dirties his beak when he eats a kernel of corn and must find a way to clean it before his parrot uncle's wedding. Includes a glossary of Spanish words and information about the different birds in the story.
Author
Publisher
Libros Tigrillo
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Español
Description
A young African Cuban girl is sent to live with her aunt and cousins after the death of her mother and begins to write letters to her deceased mother telling of the misery, racial prejudice, and mistreatment at the hands of those around her.
13) Carlos Finlay
Author
Publisher
Raintree Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Examines the life of the Cuban-born physician who developed the theory of yellow fever transmission through mosquitoes.
15) Carlos Finlay
Author
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the Cuban-born physician who developed the theory of yellow fever transmission through mosquitoes.
16) La selva
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
A Edver no le hace ninguna gracia que lo envíen a Cuba a ver al padre que apenas conoce. Sin embargo, ahora que las leyes de viaje han cambiado y es mucho más fácil reunir a las familias divididas, su mamá piensa que es hora de que padre e hijo pasen tiempo juntos. Edver no se imagina lo que le depara el verano, ¡pero definitivamente no espera conocer a la hermana que ni siquiera sabía que existía! Luza es un año mayor y está muy entusiasmada...
17) Otra vez adios
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
David Benda, quien realizaria el ultimo retrato de Sigmund Freud, es el nombre tras el que se esconde un joven y extraordinario pintor. David es judio y vive una intensa pasion con una bella joven vienesa aria , en un momento historico terrible en que esas relaciones son un delito. Los nazis estan a punto de entrar en Austria, y esa invasion sera el preludio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y de una fascinante historia de amor, violencia y resistencia...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Cuban girl transforms her long and unruly hair into a garden.
One night, while Dalia slept safely wrapped in her mother's cool silken sheets, her hair grew and grew. By the time the rooster crowed, her hair had "grown straight up to the sky, tall and thick as a Cuban royal palm tree." Her mother was amazed, and wondered what her daughter would do with her wondrous hair.
As Dalia looked at the flowers blooming in the garden, an idea sprouted inside...
20) El día del agua
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Un pequeño pueblo ya no tiene suficiente suministro de agua, pero una niña y sus vecinos reciben la ayuda del aguador. Cuando él viene al pueblo, el agua fluye como la esperanza para toda la familia, y todos celebran su llegada.
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.