Islandborn / Junot Díaz ; illustrated by Leo Espinosa.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735229860
- ISBN: 0735229864
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Publisher: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Young Readers Group, 2018.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | AD600L Lexile Decoding demand: 83 (very high) Semantic demand: 85 (very high) Syntactic demand: 83 (very high) Structure demand: 86 (very high) Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.4 0.5 194007. Accelerated Reader AR LG 3 0.5 194007. |
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- 25 of 25 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rolla Public.
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Summary
Islandborn
From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot DÃaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. A 2019 Pura Belpré Honor Book for Illustration Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when Lola's teacher asks the students to draw a picture of where their families immigrated from, all the kids are excited. Except Lola. She can't remember The Island--she left when she was just a baby. But with the help of her family and friends, and their memories--joyous, fantastical, heartbreaking, and frightening--Lola's imagination takes her on an extraordinary journey back to The Island. As she draws closer to the heart of her family's story, Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: "Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you." Gloriously illustrated and lyrically written, Islandborn is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and our imagination's boundless ability to connect us--to our families, to our past and to ourselves.