Judith Ortiz Cofer

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1) Call me Maria: a novel

Author

Cofer, Judith Ortiz

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.

2) ¡A bailar!

Author

Cofer, Judith Ortiz

Language

Español

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A young girl and her mother put on their red dresses and dance their way through the barrio, collecting friends and neighbors along the way as they go to the park to hear her father's salsa band play.

3) The poet upstairs

Author

Cofer, Judith Ortiz

Language

English

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Children's Books About Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans, and Written by Puerto Ricans
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children

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When a poet moves into the apartment above hers, young Juliana asks to meet her and together they write poems of tropical birds and a river that flows to the sea, typing out words that change the world, if only for a while.

4) Silent dancing: a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood

Author

Cofer, Judith Ortiz

Language

English

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Adult Fiction and Memoir Written by Puerto Ricans

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A collection of writings by the poet, novelist, and essayist recalling her childhood spent shuttling between the land of her birth and the family home in New Jersey.