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Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American winner of the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her award winning young adult novels in verse include The Surrender Tree, The Poet Slave of Cuba, and The Lightning Dreamer, winner of the PEN USA Award.Engle's most recent books are Orangutanka, Drum Dream Girl, The Sky Painter, and Enchanted Air. All of these books are to be released in 2015. For news and updates, visit http://margaritaengle.com/She lives in central California, where she enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs.

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Website: www.margaritaengle.com

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Historical Fiction, Poetry

Margarita Engle's Books

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom - Margarita Engle

The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba - Margarita Engle

Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck - Margarita Engle

Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba - Margarita Engle

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir - Margarita Engle, Edel Rodriguez

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian - Margarita Engle, Julie Paschkis

The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano - Margarita Engle, Sean Qualls

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music - Margarita Engle, Rafael López

Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories - Ann M. Martin, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Jon J. Muth, Aleksey Ivanov, Olga Ivanov, Thacher Hurd, Mark Teague, Wendy Orr, Margarita Engle, Valerie Hobbs, Matt de la Pena, Mathew de la Pena

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal - Margarita Engle

Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories - Ann M. Martin, Margarita Engle, Valerie Hobbs, Wendy Orr, Mathew de la Pena, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Mark Teague, Thacher Hurd

Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words - Margarita Engle

When You Wander: A Search-and-Rescue Dog Story - Margarita Engle, Mary Morgan

The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist - Margarita Engle, Aliona Bereghici

By Margarita EngleDrum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music[Hardcover] - Margarita Engle

¡Bravo! (Spanish language edition): Poemas sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios (Spanish Edition) - Margarita Engle, Rafael Lopez

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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it

10 years ago

text Drum Dream Girl

A great book about a mixed race (African-Asian) Cuban girl. Like Engle's other historical fiction I've read, this one leaves me curious to learn more about the history behind the story.

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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it

10 years ago

text Tropical Secrets

I preferred Engle's The Lightning Dreamer to Tropical Secrets. The writing and the story of The Lightning Dreamer was just more interesting to me. But Tropical Secrets was still good (I read it in one sitting). It covered a bit of history I knew nothing about (Jewish refugees in Cuba). I don't know ...

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kvela rated it

10 years ago

text The Surrender Tree

This book is free-verse novel based on Cuba’s painful struggle for independence from Spain and the life Rosario Castellanos Castellanos, known as Rosa la Bayamesa. This compelling piece of narrative prose is told from different characters' point of view; mainly Rosa, a freed slave who heals and hid...

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good english rated it

12 years ago

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The Firefly Letters is a slim volume of historical semi-fiction that uses the known bones of Fredrika Bremer's stay in Cuba in the 1850s to tell a mostly-imagined story about Bremer and two young women. I'm glad it exists -- I wouldn't have heard of Bremer otherwise -- but it seemed insubstantial. T...

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