Flight to freedom
By: Ana Veciana-Suarez
Edition: 1st Scholastic pbk. printing.
Series: First person fiction
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780439661324
Subjects: Cuban Americans -- Juvenile fiction.; Cuban Americans -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Fiction.; Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.; Cuba -- History -- 1959- -- Fiction.; Miami (Fla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida, after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives while leaving others behind. Yara Garcia and her family live a middle-class life in Havana, Cuba. But in 1967, as Communist ruler Fidel Castro tightens his hold on Cuba, the Garcias, who do not share the political beliefs of the Communist Party, are forced to flee to Miami, Florida. There, Yara encounters a strange land with foreign customs. She knows very little English, and she finds that the other students in her new school have much more freedom than she and her sisters. Tension develops between her parents, as Mami grows more independent and Papi joins a militant anti-Castro organization.