The Cuban American Family Album

by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler

Book Overview

"When you ask my sons where they are from they will answer, 'I'm Cuban, but I was born in McAllen, Texas.'"--Maria Luisa Salcines, born in Guant namo, Cuba, who came to the United States in 1963.
Between 1960 and 1995 over one million Cubans arrived in the United States--almost 10 percent of the island's population. Many came in the dead of night with only the clothes on their backs. Though it is less than 100 miles from Cuba to the tip of Florida,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195103408
• ISBN13: 9780195103403
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.9" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9