Triana, Gaby. Cubanita. 2005. Harper Collins: New York
Annotaion: Isa, 17 years old, is in the transitional summer between high school and college. She deals with many changes and issues, including struggling with her Cuban heritage, falling in and out of love, and becoming closer to her family.
Justification for Nomination: Triana writes this book in a way that the characters and the feelings in the book seem so real that they seem to jump out of the pages. The Cuban family and their norms backgrounds are very clearly portrayed and easily understood. The author kept me interested from the first page to the last, and I felt for the main character, Isa, as she learns very valuable life lessons.
Genre: Multicultural, Coming of Age, Humor
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