Flight to freedom

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Cuban Americans,  History,  Diaries,  Emigration and immigration,  Juvenile fiction,  Immigrants,  Liberty, juvenile literature,  Liberty,  African americans, history,  Children's fiction,  Cuban americans, fiction,  Emigration and immigration, fiction,  Diaries, fiction,  Cuba, fiction,  Florida, fiction

Places: Miami (Fla.),  Cuba

Times: 1959-,  20th century