Title: Islandborn
Description: "Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
Subjects: Dominican Americans, Picture books, Juvenile fiction, Immigrants, Fiction, Schools, Emigration and immigration, Islands, History, nyt:picture-books=2018-04-01, New York Times bestseller, Children's fiction, Islands, fiction, Immigrants, fiction, Schools, fiction, Dominican republic, fiction, Africa, fiction, award:Pura_Belpre_award, lexile:600, lexile_range:601-700, lexile_code:AD, age:min:2, age:max:8, grade:min:Kindergarten, grade:max:3, Islas, Inmigrantes, Ficción juvenil, Historia, Escuelas, Emigración e inmigración, Spanish language materials
Places: Dominican Republic, Africa, África
Time periods: 1930-1961