In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
Genres
- Children's fiction
- Family life, fiction
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- Immigrants, fiction
- Neighbors, fiction
- Juvenile
- award:Pura_Belpre_award
- lexile:670
- lexile_range:601-700
- age:min:10
- age:max:11
- grade:min:5
- grade:max:6
- Fractures
- Juvenile fiction
- Immigrants
- Neighbors
- Cuban Americans
- Cuban Jews
- Families
- History
- Fiction
- Family life
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