Name: Con Cuba En El Bolsillo
Author: Cuevas, Adrianna
ISBN: [978-1-25084-457-6,1-25084-457-6]

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Con Cuba En El Bolsillo

Author: Cuevas, Adrianna

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Follett Number: 1871CZ9
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Square Fish, 2023
Format: 315 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-25084-457-6
ISBN-10: 1-25084-457-6
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:

Cuba History 1959-1990 Fiction

Cuban Americans Fiction

Family Life Fiction

Historical Fiction

Spanish Language Materials

Text in Spanish.;Translation of: Cuba in my pocket.;Based on the author's family history. In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.

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By the author of 2021 Pura Belpre Honor Book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, a sweeping, emotional middle grade historical novel about a twelve-year-old boy who leaves his family in Cuba to immigrate to the U.S. by himself, based on the author's family history. The Spanish language edition! "I don't remember. Tell me everything, Pepito. Tell me about Cuba." When the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 solidifies Castro's power in Cuba, twelve-year-old Cumba's family makes the difficult decision to send him to Florida alone. Faced with the prospect of living in another country by himself, Cumba tries to remember the sound of his father's clarinet, the smell of his mother's lavender perfume. Life in the United States presents a whole new set of challenges. Lost in a sea of English speakers, Cumba has to navigate a new city, a new school, and new freedom all on his own. With each day, Cumba feels more confident in his new surroundings, but he continues to wonder: Will his family ever be whole again? Or will they remain just out of reach, ninety miles across the sea?

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