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Islandborn  Cover Image Book Book

Islandborn / by Junot D©Ưaz ; illustrated by Leo Espinosa.

D©Ưaz, Junot, 1968- (author.). Espinosa, Leo, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"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 ; 29 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018]
Subject: Islands > Juvenile fiction.
Dominican Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Immigrants > Juvenile fiction.
Dominican Republic > History > 1930-1961 > Juvenile fiction.
Africa > Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.

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Islandborn
Islandborn
by Díaz, Junot; Espinosa, Leo (Illustrator)
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Author Notes

Islandborn

Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and was raised in New Jersey. His fiction has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, African Voices, and Best American Short Stories. He wrote the story collection Drown and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His debut picture book is entitled Islandborn, published June 2018. He is a professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Bowker Author Biography)


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