Junot Diaz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Formats
Description
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.
2) Islandborn
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"As©Ư es como la pierdes es un libro sobre mujeres que quitan el sentido, sobre el amor y el ardor, sobre la traici©đn, porque a veces traicionamos lo que m©Łs queremos, y tambi©♭n es un libro sobre el suplicio que pasamos despu©♭s--los ruegos, las l©Łgrimas, la sensaci©đn de estar atravesado un campo de minas--para intentar recuperar lo que perdimos, aquello que cre©Ưamos que no quer©Ưamos, que no nos importaba. Estos cuentos...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ-the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatship girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories, for Díaz, have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"--
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