Leaving Glorytown: One Boy's Struggle Under Castro
by Eduardo F. Calcines
In this absorbing memoir, by turns humorous and heartbreaking, Eduardo Calcines... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Cultural Experience
- Latino (Latin America)
Year Published 2009
Word Count 58,987
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 730L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 129824, 9 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- History
- Spanish
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Refugees--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Calcines, Eduardo F.--Juvenile literature
- Cuba--History--1959-1990
- Refugees
- Cubans--Biography--Juvenile literature
- 1959-1990
- Cubans--Biography
- Refugees--United States--Biography
- Cuba
- History
- United States
- Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places | Caribbean & Latin America
- Calcines, Eduardo F
- Biography / Autobiography
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Cuba--History--1959-1990--Juvenile literature
- Cubans
- Lists With This Book
- Coming of Age: Big Changes
- Autobiography & Memoir: Hispanic
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