Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa
Publisher
Razorbill
Publication Year
2006
ISBN
9781595140814
Pages
288 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Forced to stay with her mother in Puerto Rico for weeks after her grandmother's funeral, half-Jewish Emily, who has just graduated from a Westchester, New York, high school, does not find it easy to connect with her Puerto Rican heritage and relatives she had never met.
Grade Level
9-12
Lexile Measure
730L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Culture/Ethnicity; Family member death; Biracial; Interracial; Bicultural; death of a grandmother; biracial teenager; mixed race; interracial marriage; interracial family; bicultural teenager
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Puerto Rican / White
Family Formation
mother and father
Awards
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, Supplement to Ninth Edition, 2007
Keywords
families; Puerto Rico; identity; Judaism; Jewish people; funeral; dancing; salsa dance; cooking; extended family; summer vacation
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Ostow, Micol, "Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa" (2006). Diverse Families. 102.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/102