Lucky Broken Girl - 9780399546440

Winner of the 2018 Pura Belpre Award! ôA book for anyone mending from childhood wounds.öùSandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrativeùbased on the authorÆs childhood in the 1960sùa young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. RuthieÆs plight will intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time. Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from CastroÆs Cuba to New York City. Just when sheÆs finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of Englishùand enjoying her reign as her neighborhoodÆs hopscotch queenùa horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As RuthieÆs world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.

• | Author: Ruth Behar
• | Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Juvenile Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0399546448
• | ISBN-13: 9780399546440