cuban americans

A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the United States.

Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.

Cuban immigrants have been coming to the United States and Canada for years. Many have fled the repressive communist system, seeking freedom in the north.

Poetic memoir by Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of her experiences growing up in two cultures, Cuban and American, during the Cold War.

"A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U.S."--Provided by publisher.

Excited about the first show-and-tell in her new American kindergarten, Amelia brings in her special fiesta dress from Cuba.

Chen Pan, having signed a contract in 1857 that takes him from China to Cuba where he is enslaved on a sugar plantation, manages to escape his bonds, find love, and create a life for himself and successive generations in the foreign land.

The author describes his privileged life in Havana before he was sent at the age of eleven to the U.S. in 1962, in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.

In this collection of poetry, Richard Blanco explores the ideal of home and the connections we seek through place, culture, family, love, and art.