Junot Díaz
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year
One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time...
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year
One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time...
3) Drown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican Republic-and other front-line reports on the ambivalent promise of the American dream-by an eloquent and original writer who describes more than physical dislocation in conveying the price that is paid forleaving culture and homeland behind."--San Francisco Chronicle. Junot Diaz's stories are as vibrant, tough, unexotic, and beautiful...
4) Islandborn
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
5) Lola
Author
Publisher
Dial Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"Todos los nįos en la escuela de Lola ven̕an de otra parte. Era una escuela de lugares lejanos. As̕ que cuando la maestra de Lola pide a sus alumnos que hagan un dibujo del lugar del que emigraron sus familias, todos los nįos se entusiasman. Todos, menos Lola. Ella no recuerda la Isla: se fue cuando era apenas un beb̌. Pero con la ayuda de su familia y de sus amigos, todos ellos con sus recuerdos felices, maravillosos, tristes, aterradores ,...
7) Negocios
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
Español
Description
Desde que Diaz empezo a publicar historias cortas, en publicaciones tan prestigiosas como The New Yorker, ha sido senalado como un gran talento nuevo, y su debut con historias cortas, confirman esta afirmacion. Nacio y crecio en Santo Domingo, Diaz utiliza la comparacion de su isla con la vida en Nueva York y Nueva Jersey, como el fulcro de sus mordaces historias.
Junot Diaz began his literary career with this collection of short stories evoking...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
"In 'Miss Lora, ' Junot Díaz masterfully puts us in the mind of a teenage boy who throws aside his better sense and pursues an intimate affair with a high school teacher. Sheila Kohler tackles innocence and abuse as a child wanders away from her mother, in thrall to a stranger she believes is the 'Magic Man.' Kirstin Valdez Quade's 'Nemecia'...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--