The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico (Hardcover)

from EadieB

This was a coming of age novel which was very interesting about life in Puerto Rico for an eleven year-old girl named Verdita. It was a little slow in the middle but the most interesting to me was how the novel showed the relationship between United States and Puerto Rico in the 1960's.

from bookworm_naida

Being of Puerto Rican descent myself, I could not help but connect with The Time it Snowed in Puerto Rico. Taking place during the early 1960's over the course of two years, we see this story through the eyes of eleven year old Verdita as she lives on the island. This is a coming of age story for...

from Kayla-Marie

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I thought McCoy captured the mind of an 11-year-old girl perfectly. I was able to relate to a lot of things that Verdita experienced, such as her first bad dye job. I experimented with a few dye jobs myself when I was around that age, none of which turned me into ...

from tippygirl

This book reoccurs in my mind quite often, surprisingly, when I least expect. The setting is tropical, humid, and cleverly written about a young lady who finds herself in the midst of the 1960's in Puerto Rico. There is something about the inner thoughts of adolescents that we want to ignore, but...