Con Cuba en el bolsillo / Cuevas, Adrianna

After the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, the dictator Castro solidifies power in Cuba, and twelve-year-old Cumba is sent to live in Florida to escape becoming a child soldier. Cumba struggles to feel at home in the United States, missing his family--who are only ninety miles away--and wonders if he will ever see them again.

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.