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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4.5
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darryl craft
21 July 2016
Absolutely loved it!!!
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About the author

Judith Ortiz Cofer is an award-winning author known for her stories about coming-of-age experiences in the barrio and her writings about the cultural conflicts of immigrants. She is the author of many distinguished titles for young adults such as Call Me Maria, The Meaning of Consuelo, and The Line in the Sand. She lives in Georgia where she is the Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

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