Lucky broken girl

By Ruth Behar

Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Emotions & Feelings, Immigrants, Families, Neighbors, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino, Fiction, Cuban Americans, Fractures, Juvenile fiction, History, Family life

Description: Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro's Cuba to New York City. Just when she's finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English--and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood's hopscotch queen--a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery.