An Island Like You
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Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Pura Belpre 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 notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio – and this is their world.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780545131339
- Publication Date
- August 1, 2009
- Publisher
- Orchard Books
- Original Publication Date
- March 1, 1995
- Page Count
- 256
- Word Count
- 51507
- Audience
- Young Adult
- Reading Age
- 12 - 17 years
- Lexile® Level
- 910L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~V
- ATOS® Book Level
- 5.4
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 8
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 21983
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- UG
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