Books About Puerto Ricans in New York and Elsewhere in the United States
Ada, Alma Flor. My Name Is María Isabel. Aladdin Library, 1995.
Barth, Edna. The Day Luis Was Lost. Little Brown
    & Company, 1971.
Martel, Cruz. Yagua Days. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
Pérez y González, María. Puerto Ricans in the United States.
   Greenwood Press, 2000.
Velasquez, Eric. Grandma's Records. Walker & Co., 2001.

Books About Puerto Rico
Aliotta, Jerome J. The Puerto Rican Americans
   (The Immigrant Experience). Chelsea House Publishing, 1995.
Cabanillas de Rodriguez, Berta. Puerto Rican Dishes.
   University of Puerto Rico Press, 1993.
Delacre, Lulu. Vejigante Masquerader. Scholastic Trade, 1993.
Landau, Elaine. Puerto Rico (True Books). Children's Press, 1999.
Lee, Alfonso Silva. Mi isla y yo: La naturaleza de Puerto Rico /
   My Island and I: The Nature of Puerto Rico. Pangaea Publishers, 2002.
Ortiz, Yvonne. A Taste of Puerto Rico. Plume, 1997.
Rivera, Oswald. Puerto Rican Cuisine in America. Four Walls
   Eight Windows, 2002.

Websites:

	For information about Puerto Ricans in New York and elsewhere in the United States, consult the following websites: LatinoWeb Puerto Rico Herald http://www.puertoricans.com/city/MANNY/index7.asp http://www.elmuseo.org
	For information about Puerto Rico, consult the following websites: http://Welcome.toPuertoRico.org http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/puerto_rico.html (This is a map website.)
	For information about Vejigante masks, consult the following websites: http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_01/Puer171.shtml http://www.elcoquigifts.com/maskvejigante1.asp http://www.arkcharter.org/kidsstuffhelen_vejigante_masks.htm
	For information about clouds, consult the following websites: How Clouds Form http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html

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