Lucky Broken Girl
About this book
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
Subjects
- age:max:11
- age:min:10
- award:pura_belpre_award
- children's fiction
- cuban americans
- cuban jews
- families
- family life
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- fractures
- grade:max:6
- grade:min:5
- history
- immigrants
- immigrants, fiction
- juvenile
- juvenile fiction
- lexile:670
- lexile_range:601-700
- neighbors
- neighbors, fiction
- new york (n.y.), fiction