Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos

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This stunning wordless graphic novel follows a young girl in the 1960s who immigrates from Cuba to the United States and must redefine what home means to her. Marisol loves her colorful island home. Cuba is vibrant with flowers and food and people. But things are changing. The home Marisol loves is no longer safe-and then it's no longer her home at all. Her parents are sending her to the United States. Alone. Nothing about Marisol's new life in cold, gray Brooklyn feels like home-not the language, school, or even her foster parents. But Marisol starts to realize that home isn't always a place. And finding her way can be as simple as staying true to herself.

  • Product Features

    • Suggested age range- 10-18 years
    • Format- Paperback
    • Dimensions- 5.9" W x 8.9" H x 0.7" D
    • Genre- Fiction
    • Publisher- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Publication date- 03/15/2022
    • Page count- 192
    • ISBN- 9781534469235

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3 years ago

I Wept

It never ceases to amaze me how much graphic novelists convey through artwork. And this beautifully drawn middle grade novel, even with only a small handful of words in it, is *much.* I was choked up (and not in a corny way) through plenty of it—during the parts of Marisol's journey that tore my heart as well as the moments that made me chuckle or simply smile. I gasped, I groaned, I "oooed" and "ahhhed" as this tale-in-color (and absence of color) spoke to me, and when I closed the book after the last page, I wept: for children whose home and migration stories are like Marisol's, and for children whose home and migration stories aren't. Young, old, and in-between alike should check out this novel that is at once an expression and a call to the human soul.

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4 years ago

Beautiful Book for Middle Grade

This book makes me wish I was still a middle school teacher. This wordless novel tells Marisol's story beautifully. This is a really painful topic (immigrating to a new country without a parent) handled in a hopeful way that will appeal to many kids, particularly middle grade and young adults. As a literature teacher, I immediately noticed how this book will appeal to a variety of readers. English Language Learners and LAP readers in particular will adore being able to participate in literary analysis with this book. I was about 20 pages in when I started planning out a Socratic seminar centered around this text. It's too bad I'm out of the middle grade teaching game; I'll have to pass it on to my colleagues!

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4 years ago
from Miami

Isla to Island

Excited to add this wonderful book to our library.

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