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Margarita Engle
This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the "inspiring and hopeful" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human…
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Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
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A powerful novel in verse from Newbery and Pura Belpre Award-winning author Margarita Engle about the friendship between a young girl and the poet Gabriela Mistral that leads to healing…
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When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban…
Inspired by stories from her mother's childhood, acclaimed author Margarita Engle and award-winning artist John Parra have crafted a vibrant picture book about a young girl and her family who…
Explore the Costa Rican rainforest with Destiny, a rescued orphan baby sloth who must learn to return to the wild, in this heartwarming true story from Newbery Honor winner Margarita…
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Una edicion espanola !Si ese hombre puede volar, yo tambien puedo!
En una animada calle en la encantadora ciudad de Paris, una joven llamada Aida miro hacia el cielo y…
Looks at the life and accomplishments of Teresa Carreano, one of the world’s most famous pianists who, by age nine, performed for President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.
In this … memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War –Amazon.com.
Six months before the famous Wright Brothers’ first flight, Aaida de Acosta became the first woman to fly a powered aircraft. –
As the Panama Canal turns 100, Newbery Honor - winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse. How can such…
A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubaen Daraio, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a…
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as…
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Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns…
In Cuba’s special period in times of peace of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer…
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In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her horse and forges unexpected friendships with others who share her dreams of freedom…
Showcasing the colorful buildings and iconic classic cars of Havana, this verse picture book follows a Cuban boy and his family on their road trip into the city.
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From Newbery Honoree Engle comes a lively novel in verse that tells the storyof a Cuban-American boy who visits his family’s village in Cuba for the firsttime–and meets a sister…
In this powerful companion to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Young People’s Poet Laureate Engle recounts her years as a Cuban American teenager during the turbulent 1960s.
In this stunning new work in verse, a Newbery Honor winner paints a portrait of early women’s rights pioneer Fredrika Bremer and the journey to Cuba that transformed her life.
A stunning new novel in verse from the Pura Belpre Award-winning author of The Poet Slave of Cuba.
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States…
An inspiring coming-of-age story told in prose and spare, lyrical verse (The Horn Book Magazine) from award-winning author Margarita Engle about a girl falling in love for the first time…
When a hurricane exposes Soleida’s family’s secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban…
In this stirring young adult romance from award-winning author Margarita Engle, love and conservation intertwine as two teens fight to protect wildlife and heal from their troubled pasts.Ana and her…
Originalmente publicado en inglaes como Your Heart, My Sky.
Engle and Qualls present a lyrical biography, in verse, of Juan Francisco Manzano, a Cuban slave who escaped his owners in 1797 to become a celebrated poet. An ALA Best…
Originalmente publicado en inglaes como Rima’s Rebellion.
Now available in Spanish! This gorgeously romantic and contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.
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Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away…
Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera’s pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to…
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A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
Acclaimed poet Engle has created a breathtaking portrait of Cuba in this story told in verse. For the first time, both English and Spanish translations of this Newbery Honor and…
Newbery Honor-winner Margarita Engle tells her most personal story to date, a glowing portrait in verse of her Cuban grandmother as a young girl struggling with dyslexia.
