cuba

A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.

Looks at cultural traditions in Cuba, covering a variety of holidays and festivals.

In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.

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.

A bilingual biography of Jos? Mart?, who dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty for all men and women. Includes author's note, afterword, and author's sources.

The story of four strong-willed women of the del Pino family of Havana and of Brooklyn who are divided by conflicting political loyalties.

Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.

Using his own personal history, and telling a few of the stories that audiences across the nation have found captivating, award-winning bilingual children's author and storyteller Antonio Sacre weaves the Spanish language, Cuban and Mexican customs, and Irish humor into a memoir that is a unique blend of inspiration, tradition, and family.

"The . . . story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose . . . exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century"--Provided by publisher.

The families of Hannah Rosenthal and her best friend board the SS St Louis on which safe passage was promised for Jews fleeing Germany to asylum in Cuba at the brink of World War II. After ominous rumors from Cuba undermine their sense of security, the journey that began like a luxurious holiday seems likely to become their doom. Seven decades later, Anna Rosen receives a package from her great-aunt Hannah in Cuba, sending her on a quest that helps her understand her place in the world.