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Margarita Engle (Author)
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle For Freedom /
El árbol de la rendición: poemas de la lucha de cuba por su libertad is a lyrical, Newbery Honor-winning history in poems, and this bilingual edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book.
La Guerra Chiquita?
Cómo puede haber una guerra chiquita?
Acaso algunas muertes
son más pequeñas que otras,
dejan madres
que lloran
un poco menos? It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish–Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? Using the true story of the folk hero Rosa la Bayamesa, acclaimed poet Margarita Engle gives us another gripping, breathtaking account of a tumultuous period in Cuban history.
A 2009 Newbery Honor Book
Winner of the 2009 Pura Belpr
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Medal for Narrative
Winner of the 2009 Bank Street – Claudia Lewis Award
A 2009 Bank Street – Best Children’s Book of the Year
Author Biography
Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books, including the verse novels Your Heart, My Sky: With a Star in My Hand, The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and Forest World. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Follow her on Twittero síguela en Twitter en @margaritapoet y en Instagram en @ of Pages: 384Dimensions: 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 INPublication Date: March 16, 2010Accelerated Reader:Quiz Name: Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for FreedomInterest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8Reading Level: 6.4Point Value: 2
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