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Under the royal palms : a childhood in Cuba / Alma Flor Ada.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7664
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ada, Alma Flor, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ada, Alma Flor--Childhood and youth--Juvenile literature.
- Ada, Alma Flor.
- Ada, Alma Flor--Homes and haunts--Cuba--Juvenile literature.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, Cuban--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Authors, Cuban.
- Cuban American women--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Cuban American women.
- Cuba--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Intellectual life--Juvenile literature.
- Families--Cuba--Juvenile literature.
- Families.
- Cuba--Social life and customs.
- Women--Biography.
- Childhood and youth of a person.
- Intellectual life.
- Homes.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Juvenile books.
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Juvenile works
- Autobiographies.
- Dust jackets (Binding) -- 1998.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7664)
- Physical Description:
- 85 pages : illustrations (chiefly portraits) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [1998]
- Summary:
- The author recalls her life and impressions growing up in Cuba.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Bats
- Clay
- Explorers
- Broken Wings
- Christmas for All
- Gilda
- Madame Marie
- Uncle Manolo's Mystery
- The Legend of the White Buzzard
- Storm!
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "First edition."--title page verso.
- Pura Belpré Author Award, 2000.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7664: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Author's autograph on half title. With dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0689806310
- 9780689806315
- OCLC:
- 38104743
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