An Island Like You: Stories Of The Barrio
- Synopsis
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Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio!
Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.
- Copyright:
- 1995
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 256 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780545281546
- Related ISBNs:
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9780545131339
- Publisher:
- Scholastic Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 11/28/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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Children's Books,
Literature and Fiction
- Grade Levels:
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Seventh grade
- Reading Age:
- 12–18
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
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This is a copyrighted book.
