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Chicago (Ill.) Biography Cuba History Revolution, 1959 Personal narratives Cuban Americans Biography Eire, Carlos M. N Childhood and youth Eire, Carlos M. N Family Havana (Cuba) Biography Havana (Cuba) Social conditions 20th century Havana (Cuba) Social life and customs 20th century Operation Peter Pan. Refugee children United States BiographyEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC ENGKurlansky, Mark
Summary: "Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky's own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city's singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9 KUREire, Carlos M. N.
Summary: A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003