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Letters from Cuba
Author: Behar, Ruth

Publisher: Nancy Paulsen (2020)

Classification: Fiction
Physical Description: 255 p., 21 cm

BTSB No: 102013

ISBN: 9780525516477

Ages: 10-14

Grades: 5-9

Subjects:
Refugees -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Fiction
Jews -- Cuba -- Fiction
Dressmaking -- Fiction
Letters -- Fiction
Cuba -- History -- 1933-1959 -- Fiction

Price: $6.50

Summary:
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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Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: MG
   Reading Level: 5.40
   Points: 8.0   Quiz: 510861

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School Library Journal (+) (08/01/20)
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