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Lucky Broken Girl
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Lucky Broken Girl Paperback - 2018

by Behar, Ruth

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In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative--based on the author's childhood in the 1960s--a young Cuban immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is derailed by a car accident.x 7 13/16.

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Penguin Young Readers Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Details

  • Title Lucky Broken Girl
  • Author Behar, Ruth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Young Readers Group
  • Date 2018-04-10
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 17424461-6
  • ISBN 9780399546457 / 0399546456
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (19.81 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 10 to UP years
  • Grade levels 5 - UP
  • Reading level 670
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Immigrants
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016022378
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About the author

Ruth Behar (www.ruthbehar.com), an acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction, received the 2018 Pura Belpr Author Award for Lucky Broken Girl, her first book for young readers. She was born in Havana, Cuba, grew up in New York City, and has also lived in Spain and Mexico. An anthropology professor at the University of Michigan, she is the author of The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, and Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys, and other books about her travels, as well as a bilingual book of poetry, Everything I Kept/Todo lo que guard. Her honors include a MacArthur Fellows "Genius" Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Distinguished Alumna Award from Wesleyan University. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and travels frequently to Miami and Havana.