Islandborn
About this book
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
Subjects
- africa, fiction
- age:max:8
- age:min:2
- award:pura_belpre_award
- caribbean & latin america
- children's fiction
- dominican americans
- dominican republic, fiction
- emigración e inmigración
- emigration and immigration
- escuelas
- family
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
- grade:max:3
- grade:min:kindergarten
- hispanic & latino
- historia
- history
- immigrants
- immigrants, fiction
- inmigrantes
- islands
- islands, fiction
- islas
- juvenile fiction
- lexile:600
- lexile_code:ad
- lexile_range:601-700
- multigenerational
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:picture-books=2018-04-01
- people & places
- picture books
- schools
- schools, fiction
- spanish language materials