Flight to freedom
by Ana Veciana-Suarez
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Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida, after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives while leaving others behind. Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. She knows very little English, and she finds that the other students in her new school have much more freedom than she and her sisters. Tension develops between her parents, as Mami grows more independent and Papi joins a militant anti-Castro organization.
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Cuban Americans, Diaries, Immigrants, Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Juvenile fiction, HistoryPlaces
Miami (Fla.), CubaTimes
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Flight to freedom
2004, Scholastic
in English
- 1st Scholastic pbk. printing.
0439661323 9780439661324
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