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MS Margarita Engle
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.
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Newbery Honor-winner Margarita Engle tells the story of Cuban folk hero, abolitionist, and women’s rights pioneer Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda in this powerful YA historical novel in verse.
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…
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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.
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…
Award winning author Margarita Engle brings a tale of history mixed with a touch of fantasy. A young girl stricken with rickets and her mother face the aftermath of the…
Una chica joven lisiado con ricketts y su madre enfrentan las secuelas de la Guerra Hispano-Americana, los desafios de un nuevo siglo y profesores innovadores. Suenos Realidad y suenos aplastados…
Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of the creation of the Panama Canal in this powerful YA historical novel in verse.
After his mother is sent to jail, Tony goes to live with a great uncle in Sierra Nevada. Against a remote backdrop, the scars from Tony’s troubled past begin to…
Six months before the famous Wright Brothers’ first flight, Aaida de Acosta became the first woman to fly a powered aircraft. In this beautiful picture book, award-winners Engle and Palacios…
A young girl stricken with rickets and her mother face the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the challenges of a new century and innovative teachers. Dreams realized and dreams crushed…
Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a…
IMPERFECT features 70 poems by 50 poets, covering all kinds of mistakes. The IMPERFECT poets, who include the 2017-2019 Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle, have published hundreds of books…
This volume features 70 poems by 50 poets, covering all kinds of mistakes. The poets, who include the 2017-2019 Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle, have published hundreds of books…
Adventures abound in this hilarious and heartwarming anthology of dog stories from nine renowned authors, including Martin, Jon Muth, Matt de la Pea, and Pam Muoz Ryan. Illustrations.
