My name is María Isabel
By: by Alma Flor Ada ; illustrated by K. Dyble Thompson ; translated from the Spanish by Ana M. Cerro.
Contributors: Thompson, Kathryn Dyble, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum; Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York; Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Moving, Household -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Fiction
Description: Third grader María Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment "My Greatest Wish" gives her that opportunity.