Islandborn

Description:

"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: Dominican Americans,  Picture books,  Juvenile fiction,  Immigrants,  Fiction,  Schools,  Emigration and immigration,  Islands,  History,  nyt:picture-books=2018-04-01,  New York Times bestseller,  Children's fiction,  Islands, fiction,  Immigrants, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  Dominican republic, fiction,  Africa, fiction,  award:Pura_Belpre_award,  lexile:600,  lexile_range:601-700,  lexile_code:AD,  age:min:2,  age:max:8,  grade:min:Kindergarten,  grade:max:3,  Islas,  Inmigrantes,  Ficción juvenil,  Historia,  Escuelas,  Emigración e inmigración,  Spanish language materials

Places: Dominican Republic,  Africa,  África

Times: 1930-1961