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2018., Papillote Press Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb on the outskirts of Havana. Adela Santiago is thriteen years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. An yet something is a miss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that, but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba"--Provided by publisher.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: HISTORICAL F GON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "There are two versions of Héctor: the public and the private. It's the only way to survive in communist Cuba--especially when your father was exiled to the U.S. and labeled an enemy of the people. Héctor must always be seen as a fierce supporter of the regime, even if that means loudly rejecting the father he still loves. But in the summer of 1980, those two versions are hard to keep separate. No longer able to suppress a public uprising, the Cuban government says it will open the port of Mariel to all who wish to leave the country--if they can find a boat. But choosing to leave comes with a price. Those who want to flee are denounced as traitors by family and friends. There are violent acts of repudiation, and no one knows if they will truly be allowed to leave the country or not. So when Héctor's mother announces that she wants the family to risk everything to go to the United States, he is torn. He misses his father, but Cuba is the only home he has ever known. All his dreams and plans require him to stay. Can he leave everything behind for an unknown future? In a summer of heat and upheaval, danger and deadly consequences, Héctor's two worlds are on a collision course. Will the impact destroy him and everything he loves?"--From the publisher's web site.
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2022., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: HISTORICAL F MAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Fifteen-time Emmy Award winner and Pura Belpre honoree Sonia Manzano examines the impact of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on four children from very different walks of life. Through these snapshot stories, we are reminded that regardless of any tumultuous times, we are all forever connected in our humanity"--From the publisher's web site.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Farrar, Straus, Giroux Call No: HISTORICAL F CUE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.
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[2015], Primary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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[2015], Primary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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[2015], Primary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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[2004], Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: First person fictionSummary Note: Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida, after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives while leaving others behind.
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By Behar, Ruth2020., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: FIC BEHAR Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
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By Behar, RuthJuvenile Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
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[2020]., General, Nancy Paulsen Books Call No: Historical Fiction BEH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil together to rescue the rest of their Jewish family from persecution in Poland. Includes notes about the author's grandmother, on whom the story is based.
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2013., Adolescent, Harcourt Call No: JNF042000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
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[2017]., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: HISTORICAL F PAT Edition: First edition 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Katherine Paterson is back - A new novel from the author of Bridge to Terabithia - based on a completely true historical event. A historical novel about a young Cuban teenager who volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign that taught those throughout the impoverished countryside to read.
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2019., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Lora heeds the call of Fidel Castro that all teachers spread literacy to Cuba; and despite the objections of her parents, who've kept her in Havana her whole life, she takes off to remote Cuban communities to spread her knowledge.
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-- Memories of a Cuban boyhood2010., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates events in the childhood of architect Secundino Fernandez, who left his beloved Havana, Cuba, with his parents, first to spend a year in Spain, and later to move to New York City.
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c2010, Pre-adolescent, Knopf Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
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2011., Juvenile, Yearling, [an imprint of Random House Children's Books] Call No: FIC GONZALEZ Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
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[2017]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition, August 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge: Josef a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany, Isabel a Cuban girl in 1994, and Mahmoud a Syrian boy in 2015.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: HISTORICAL F ENG Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom and suffrage. Includes historical note.
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2009, Adolescent, Holt Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
