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If I Could Fly

by Judith Ortiz Cofer
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If I Could Fly is a standalone novel based on characters introduced in Judith Ortiz Cofer's bestselling short story collection, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, which won the inaugural Pura Belpré Award.
Fifteen-year-old Doris is used to taking care of herself. Her musician parents have always spent more time singing in nightclubs than watching after her. But when her ailing mother goes home to Puerto Rico to get well and pursue a singing career there, and her father finds a new girlfriend, Doris is more alone than she's ever been.
Disconnected from her family and her best friends, who are intertwined in terrifying relationships with a violent classmate, Doris finds refuge in taking care of homing pigeons on her apartment building's roof. As Doris tries to make sense of it all, she learns that, just like the pigeons, she might have to fly far distances before she finds out where she belongs.

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Edition: 1

Kindle Book

  • Release date: May 24, 2011

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781466801806
  • Release date: May 24, 2011

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781466801806
  • File size: 211 KB
  • Release date: May 24, 2011
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Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Young Adult Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.3
Lexile® Measure:820
Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
Text Difficulty:3-4

If I Could Fly is a standalone novel based on characters introduced in Judith Ortiz Cofer's bestselling short story collection, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, which won the inaugural Pura Belpré Award.
Fifteen-year-old Doris is used to taking care of herself. Her musician parents have always spent more time singing in nightclubs than watching after her. But when her ailing mother goes home to Puerto Rico to get well and pursue a singing career there, and her father finds a new girlfriend, Doris is more alone than she's ever been.
Disconnected from her family and her best friends, who are intertwined in terrifying relationships with a violent classmate, Doris finds refuge in taking care of homing pigeons on her apartment building's roof. As Doris tries to make sense of it all, she learns that, just like the pigeons, she might have to fly far distances before she finds out where she belongs.

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Young Adult Fiction