Letters from Cuba /

Behar, Ruth, 1956-

Letters from Cuba / Ruth Behar. - New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2020] - 255 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-247).

School Library Journal starred, August 2020 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2021 Kirkus Starred, June 2020 Booklist, July 2020 Horn Book, September 2020 Catholic Library World, December 2020 Publishers Weekly Annex, July 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 Follett School Solutions.



Texas Lone Star Reading List, 2022

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


Cuba--History--Fiction.


Biographical fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Historical fiction.

PZ7.1.B447 / Let 2020

[Fic]