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RED UMBRELLA
By Gonzalez, Christina Diaz
- ISBN
- 978-0-37596-190-8
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2010
Gr 6-9 Fourteen-year-old Luca lives an easy middle-class life in 1961 Cuba, thinking only about clothes, boys, and dances. When Communist revolutionaries occupy her town, an escalating witch hunt against capitalists compels her parents to send her and her brother to the U.S. under the care of the Catholic Welfare Bureau (as part of "Operation Pedro Pan," whichthe endnotes explainwas the largest-ever exodus of unaccompa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2010
Years after the Communist Revolution in 1961 Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucía's parents send her and her younger brother Frankie to Am...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
