Forest world by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum, 2017)

BTSB #: 311432 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
RC: 7.9 3-5 Lexile: 1240

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Novels in verse Siblings - Fiction Family life - Cuba - Fiction Forests and forestry - Fiction Poaching - Fiction Cuba - Fiction

Summary: Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.

Red umbrella by Gonzalez, Christina Diaz 

Paperback(Yearling, 2011)

BTSB #: 385681 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 3.8 MG+ Lexile: 590

Genres:

Subjects: Family life - Cuba - Fiction Cuba - History|y1959- - Fiction

Summary: 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.