Book
Letters from Cuba
by Ruth Behar
- Published
- 2020
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Pages
- 272
- Words
- 50715
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.4
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 850L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–17
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. Text contains mild violence and themes of racial prejudice.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780525516477
- ISBN-10
- 0525516476
Tags
ALSC NotablesCubaFamily Life-FathersHistorical FictionHistory-World War II EraPeople-JewishSocial Issues-Emigration/Immigration