Islandborn

Type

Book

Authors

Díaz, Junot

Espinosa, Leo

ISBN 10

0735229864

ISBN 13

9780735229860

Tags

juvenile fiction, celebration, Identity, immigrant, immigration, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, american, imagination, islands, memory, North American, school, school stories, Americas Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, Family Life

Abstract

Lola dreads the school assignment to draw her home country because she has no memory of her birthplace on an island. She turns to her family, friends, and neighbors, asking them to share memories that will allow her to create a picture of her Dominican homeland in her mind and on paper.

Number of Copies