Title: Leaving Glorytown
Description: When Eduardo Calcines was three years old, Communists took control of Cuba. Eleven years passed before Calcines and his family were finally able to leave the country. Now sixty-three, Calcines, a successful American businessman, recounts what it was like to grow up under Fidel Castro's rule.
Subjects: Cubans, Refugees, Juvenile literature, Biography, History, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Cubans, united states, Refugees, united states, Cuba, history, 1959-
Places: United States, Cuba
People: Eduardo F. Calcines
Time periods: 1959-1990