For my final project I am choosing to read "An Island Like You" by Judith Ortiz Cofer.
This book is made up of twelve stories that focus on the lives of Puerto Rican teenagers living in New Jersey. Living between two different cultures, these teens must find their place in the world.
I feel that this book will have a great influence on all students of every cultural background. No matter who you are or where you are from there has been a time in everyone's life when you felt like you did not fit and and needed to try harder or change something to be accepted.
This book will explore exactly those issues that face almost every teenager today.
"The title for An Island Like You came from a poem the author wrote that gave her "the crucial image" for the book: that of herself as a child, alone but surrounded by other people. She realized that that is what adolescence is -- "you're separating yourself from others and realizing that you are indeed an island. And that doesn't mean you're isolated; it simply means that your choices ... are yours."
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