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5) Forest world
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books/ Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Description
A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
8) Havana storm
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
Description
"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
322 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites observe the indulgences and betrayals of the adult world and are swept up by the revolt led by Fidel and Raul Castro.
Author
Publisher
Zando Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 369 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Alternating between 1980s Cuba and present-day Miami, this stunning story of a Cuban American family of brujas follows twin sisters Ofelia and Delfi as they secretly embrace their magical inheritance to stop a serial killer from taking even more innocentlives.
12) Cuba libre
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
343 p. 25 cm.
Description
A novel on the Spanish-American War featuring adventurer Ben Tyler, an Arizona horse dealer. Just as he arrives in Cuba with a shipment of guns and horses, war breaks out. To get his money, he is sucked into fighting between Spain, the U.S. and Cuban revolutionaries seeking independence from both.
15) Water day
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
Author
Formats
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
19) Carina Felina
Author
Formats
Description
Carina Felina is an arrogant cat with an appetite so huge that she eats everything and everyone who crosses her path as she ambles through Havana--until a small crab outsmarts her and saves the day.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
224 pages
Description
"The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--
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