Author
Ruth Behar
2 books here
Across So Many Seas
Picture book · ages 5–9 · 550L · 2025
Ruth Behar's semi-autobiographical picture book gives kids a tender, non-didactic entry into immigrant experience and cultural identity—rare and well-executed for this age.
Lucky Broken Girl
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · 720L · 2018
A memoir-in-verse hybrid that refuses to sentimentalize displacement; Behar's own story of leaving Cuba and breaking her leg gives it unsentimental weight, and the poem structure mirrors fragmentation without feeling gimmicky.