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In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
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©2021.
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English
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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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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Victoria loves everything about her home in Cuba. The beautiful land, the delicious food, her best friend and cousin, Jackie, and her big, loving family. But it’s 1960 in Cuba, and as the political situation grows more and more dangerous, Victoria, her parents, and her two younger siblings are forced to seek refuge in America with nothing more than two changes of clothes and five dollars. Worse, they’re forced to leave the rest of their family,...
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Español
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Cuando la fallida invasi�on de Bah�ia de Cochinos en 1961 solidifica el poder de Castro en Cuba, la familia de Cumba, de doce a�nos, toma la dif�icil decisi�on de enviarlo solo a la Florida. Ante la idea de vivir en otro pa�is por s�i mismo, Cumba intenta recordar el sonido del clarinete de su padre, el olor del perfume de lavanda de su madre. La vida en Estados Unidos presenta toda una nueva serie de desaf�ios. Perdido en un mar de...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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In 1960, twelve-year-old Victoria's family leaves Cuba and seeks refuge in Miami, and when Victoria's best friend and cousin Jackie makes the trip alone, the reunited girls attempt to bring the rest of their family to safety.
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Gables Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Español
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In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"There are two versions of Héctor: the public and the private. It's the only way to survive in communist Cuba--especially when your father was exiled to the U.S. and labeled an enemy of the people. Héctor must always be seen as a fierce supporter of the regime, even if that means loudly rejecting the father he still loves. But in the summer of 1980, those two versions are hard to keep separate. No longer able to suppress a public uprising, the Cuban...
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