Ortiz Cofer, Judith

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Call me Maria

Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.

A love story beginning in Spanish

poems
A collection of more than thirty autobiographical poems by American writer Judith Ortiz Cofer on such themes as love, womanhood, and Hispanic culture.
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Riding low on the streets of gold

[Latino literature for young adults]
2003

Call me Maria

Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.

Reaching for the mainland & selected new poems

1995
Collection of poetry focusing on Latino culture and domestic life.

Bailando en silencio

escenas de una ni?ez puertorrique?a
1997
A collection of writings by the poet, novelist, and essayist recalling her childhood spent shuttling between the land of her birth and the family's home in New Jersey.

Una isla como t?

historias del barrio
1997
Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings.

The meaning of Consuelo

2004
A Puerto Rican girl coming of age in the 1950s struggles to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture.

Call me Maria

a novel
2004
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.

El a?o de nuestra revoluci?n

cuentos y poemas
2006
A collection of poems, short stories, and essays in which the children of Hispanic parents living in the United States address the theme of straddling two cultures.

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