Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American Poetry_Gift_Guide from the canals of Venice

from the canals of Venice to the pleasure domes of Xanadu

Furnishings of quality and taste graced their homes

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and washed-up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing is asked to perform a job for Rosie

Islands Apart: Becoming Dominican American Poetry_Gift_Guide from the canals of VeniceJasminne Mendez didnt speak English when she started kindergarten, and her young, white teacher thought the girl was deaf because in Louisiana, you were either black or white. She had no idea that a black girl could be a Spanish speaker. In this memoir for teens about growing up Afro Latina in the Deep South, Jasminne writes about feeling torn between her Dominican, Spanish speaking culture at home and the American, English speaking one around her.