The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
The Surrender Tree is a Newbery Honor winning, lyrical history in poems, and this edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book.
The Surrender Tree is a Newbery Honor winning, lyrical history in poems, and this edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805086744 (0805086749)
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Pages no: 169
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Literature,
Cultural,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Poetry,
International,
Multicultural Literature
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...
I was looking forward to this one...but I wasn't moved by it and I'm still trying to figure out why. Not enough internal feelings for the characters? It felt surface to me.
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