Letters from Cuba /

Behar, Ruth, 1956-

Letters from Cuba / Ruth Behar. - 255 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.

OBOB Elementary 2022-2023.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247).

School Library Journal starred, August 2020 Kirkus Starred, June 2020

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.

6.3 5-8 850L Lexile

9780525516477 0525516476 9780525516491

2020009211


Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants--Juvenile fiction.
Jews--Cuba--Juvenile fiction.
Dressmaking--Juvenile fiction.
Letters--Juvenile fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Immigrants--Fiction.
Jews--Cuba--Fiction.
Dressmaking--Fiction.
Letters--Fiction.


Cuba--History--1933-1959--Juvenile fiction.


Biographical fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Historical fiction.

PZ7.1.B447 / Let 2020

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