Interviews

Easy-to-read text and clear photos make a complex topic accessible for beginning readers; fills a need for easy-to-read country series; aligns to social studies curriculum standards relating to culture, history, people and places, governance, economics, and global connections; high-interest nation of Cuba due to controversial relationship with the United States; regional interest in Florida due to geographic proximity and Cuban-American population; Cubans call the country El Caimain or El Cocodrilo (The Alligator) due to the shape of the island