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For younger readers

Abodaher, David J. Puerto Rico: America's 51st State? Franklin Watts, 1993. For middle school readers.

Fradin, Dennis B. Puerto Rico. Grolier, 1998. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

George, Linda, and Charles George. Luis Munoz Marin: Father of Modern Puerto Rico. Children's Press, 1999. For readers in grades 4 to 7.

Hauptly, Dennis J. Puerto Rico. Atheneum, 1991. For middle school and high school readers.

Walker, Paul Robert. Pride of Puerto Rico: The Life of Roberto Clemente. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, 1991. A biography of the late Puerto Rican baseball star; for readers in grades 5 to 8.

Puerto Rico

Acosta-Belén, Edna, ed. The Puerto Rican Woman. Holt, Praeger, 1979. 1986. Essays from a 1976 symposium.

Carr, Raymond. Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment. New York Univ., 1984. Explores the troubled U.S.-Puerto Rican relations from 1898 to the early 1980s.

Carrion, Arturo Morales. Puerto Rico: A Political and Cultural history. Norton, 1983. Special emphasis on the island's search for identity.

Johnson, Roberta Ann. Puerto Rico: Commonwealth or Colony? Praeger, 1980. Good history of Puerto Rico after 1898.

Lewis, Gordon K. Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean. Monthly Review, 1975. General history of the island.

Picó, Rafael. The Geography of Puerto Rico. Aldine, 1974. Physical, cultural, economic, and historical aspects.

Steiner, Stan. The Islands: The Worlds of the Puerto Ricans. Harper, 1974. Nuances of Puerto Rican culture in Puerto Rico and New York City.

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