Lucky broken girl / Ruth Behar.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 243 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780399546440
- 0399546448
- Fractures -- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction
- Neighbors -- Juvenile fiction
- Cuban Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Jews, Cuban -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Behar Ruth | Available | 33111008604031 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Behar Ruth | Available | 33111008753333 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of the 2018 Pura Belpre Award!
"A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds."--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative--based on the author's childhood in the 1960s--a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Ruthie's plight will intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time.
Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro's Cuba to New York City. Just when she's finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English--and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood's hopscotch queen--a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie's world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.