90 Miles to Havana

Enrique Flores-Galbis

Aug 2010 · Macmillan + ORM

About this ebook

When Julian's parents make the heartbreaking decision to send him and his two brothers away from Cuba to Miami via the Pedro Pan operation, the boys are thrust into a new world where bullies run rampant and it's not always clear how best to protect themselves.

90 Miles to Havana is a 2011 Pura Belpre Honor Book for Narrative and a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Ratings and reviews

I really only have one problem with this book. The characters are not super varied. They all felt too similar as if there were only three characters total

This is a really awesome book. I dont like books but i loved this one. It explains a lot about what parents,children,and friends had to go through to stay together. 😁😁😁

Best book i've ever read my students. Loved the book

About the author

Enrique Flores-Galbis, at age nine, was one of 14,000 children who left Cuba in 1961, without their parents, in a mass exodus called "Operation Pedro Pan." He and his two older brothers spent months in a refugee camp in southern Florida and this historical novel is inspired by that experience. Enrique is the author of RAINING SARDINES and he lives in Forest Hills, NY with his family.