Little Journey to Puerto Rico / For Intermediate and Upper Grades

The text guides readers on an imagined journey to Puerto Rico, offering practical observations about climate, clothing, and travel planning. It presents the island's geography and surface features—mountain ranges, fertile valleys, rivers, and coastlines—and explains how these support plantations, orchards, and coffee cultivation. A concise historical account traces early European contact, Spanish colonization, and the resulting decline of the indigenous population alongside later changes in governance. The climate section emphasizes year-round warmth, distinct rainy and dry seasons, trade winds, occasional hurricanes, and public-health concerns in low, crowded areas. Short travel vignettes describe train travel, towns, and local industries such as sugar and ports.