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An Island Like You
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4 out of 5
Based on 422 Ratings and 69 Reviews

Book Description
Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpr� award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio!

Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino no... More
Book Information
PublisherOrchard Books
BindingMass Market Paperback (2 editions)
Reading LevelYoung Adults
# of Pages256
ISBN-100545131332
ISBN-13978-0545131339
Publication Date08/01/2009
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About Judith Ortiz Cofer (Author) : Judith Ortiz Cofer is a published author and an editor of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Judith Ortiz Cofer include Call Me Maria, El Ano De Nuestra Revolucio... more
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