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Title Island treasures : growing up in Cuba : includes Where the flame trees bloom, Under the royal palms (winner of the Pura Belpré Award), and the new collection, Days at La Quinta Simoni / Alma Flor Ada ; illustrations by Edel Rodriguez and Antonio Martorell.

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New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2015]

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PHS Non-Fiction	813 ADA	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	227 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents	Where the flame trees bloom -- Days at La Quinta Simoni -- Under the royal palms.
Indexed In:	School Library Journal, June 2015
	Horn Book, April 2016
	Kirkus Review, May 2015
	Library Media Connection, February 2016
Summary	Collects the autobiographical writings of Alma Flor Ada.
Audience	6.8.
	3-6 Follett School Solutions.
	NC1080 Lexile.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.7 6.0 175639. 9
Subject	Memoir.
	Ada, Alma Flor.
	Ada, Alma Flor -- Homes -- Cuba.
	American authors -- Biography.
	Cuban authors -- Biography.
	Cuban American women -- Biography.
	Family life -- Cuba.
	Cuba -- Social life and customs.
	Cuba -- Intellectual life.
Genre/Form	Autobiographies.
Added Author	Rodriguez, Edel, illustrator.
	Martorell, Antonio, 1939- illustrator.
ISBN	9781481429009