Judith Ortiz Cofer

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1991
  • Latest Book:
    December 2017
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • The Line Of The Sun

    “A colorful, revealing portrait of Puerto Rican culture and domestic relationship” from the award-winning poet and author of An Island Like You (Publishers Weekly).   Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves ...

  • An Island Like You

    Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio!Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcap...

  • The Year of Our Revolution

  • The Meaning of Consuelo

    La nina seria, the serious child. That's how Consuelo's mother has cast her pensive, book-loving daughter, while Consuelo's younger sister Mili, is seen as vivacious--a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfor...

  • Call Me Maria

    A new novel from the award-winning author of An Island Like You, winner of the Pura Belpre Award.Maria is a girl caught between two worlds: Puerto Rico, where she was born, and New York, where she now lives in a basement apartment in the barrio. Whil...

  • The Latin Deli

    Reviewing her novel, The Line of the Sun, the New York Times Book Review hailed Judith Ortiz Cofer as "a writer of authentic gifts, with a genuine and important story to tell." Those gifts are on abundant display in The Latin Deli, an evocative co...

  • If I Could Fly

    Fifteen-year-old Doris is used to taking care of herself. Her musician parents have always spent more time singing in nightclubs than watching after her. But when her ailing mother goes home to Puerto Rico to get well and pursue a singing career the...

  • A Bailar!/ Let?s Dance!

    "A bailar! There's music in the park today--let's dance!" Marita and her mother are finishing their Saturday chores and anticipating Papi's salsa concert in the park that night, so Mami makes the broom her dance partner to show her daughter how to da...

  • Animal Jamboree

    Once upon a time, a lion and a lioness lived in a forest at the edge of a field. They think they are better than all their neighbors, even though the other animals horses, burros, cats, cows and even a goat aren t starving like the lions. But the lio...



  • The Poet Upstairs

    Juliana is too sick to go to school one cold, winter day. So she stays at home in bed and looks out her bedroom window. She watches as a tall lady in a red coat and hat carries her boxes of books and papers upstairs. Her mother has heard that the mys...

  • Poet Upstairs, The

    Juliana is too sick to go to school one cold, winter day. So she stays at home in bed and looks out her bedroom window. She watches as a tall lady in a red coat and hat carries her boxes of books and papers upstairs. Her mother has heard that the mys...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Judith Ortiz Cofer has published 11 books.

Judith Ortiz Cofer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Poet Upstairs, The, was published in December 2017.

The first book by Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Line Of The Sun, was published in April 1991.

No. Judith Ortiz Cofer does not write books in series.
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