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by: Nicholasa Mohr  List Price: $11.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.16 You Save: $1.79 (15%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780934770613 Edition: New edition ISBN: 0934770611 Label: Arte Publico Press Manufacturer: Arte Publico Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 292 Publication Date: 1985-06 Publisher: Arte Publico Press Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Arte Publico Press Related Items:
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 Rating: - Nilda ReviewNilda, written by Nicholasa Mohr is set in the early 1940's. It details the life of a little Puerto Rican girl who lives in a poor neighborhood in New York City that she she calls the "Barrio". Nilda deals with many of life's problems including racism, death, relationships and many more. Race is a fairly large issue for Nilda. Nilda learns and matures greatly throughout this book. Travel through the life and eyes of Nilda as she tries to deal with her crazy family. Her family includes her step ... Read More Rating: - an unpretentious and realistic storyFinally, I get to read a young adult coming-of-age book that doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't! It isn't a grandiose book of romance and drugs and wonder, with the teenager becoming a hero or tragic hero. It's just a simple story of a poor New York born Puerto Rican girl hitting her adolescence during WWII, a story of love, pain, fear, discrimination, poverty, abuse, narrow-minded immigrants, relationship problems, puberty, desire for upward mobility - but none of it told in the sensational ... Read More Rating: - Nilda is for no doubt an excellent book.The book Nilda was an excellent book that touched right through to me. The vivid descriptions of each and every scene in the book was very helpful to the reader to understand the book better and to feel that you are really inside the story. The way Nicholasa Mohr described the little Puerto Rican girl Nilda's feelings was very interesting, Nicolasa went straight to the little girl's heart and told everything. Overall, this is an exceptional story about hardship and discrimination that could be faced ... Read More Rating: - An engaging look at growing up Puerto Rican in New YorkN. Mohr's story of a young girl Puerto Rican girl growing up in New York, provides a poignant, often funny look at some of the issues faced by Boricuas living in the U.S. Issues such as race, religion, and machismo are all treated in the work. In fact, one of the distinguishing characteristics of this book is the manner in which such potentially sensitive issues are treated. 
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