Margarita Engle
Born
Los Angeles, CA, The United States
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
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2015
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings
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2015
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13 editions
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The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
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2008
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2 editions
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Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
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2019
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13 editions
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Mountain Dog
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The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
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2013
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13 editions
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The Firefly Letters
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2010
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8 editions
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The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
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2006
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17 editions
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All the Way to Havana
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2017
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6 editions
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Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
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2014
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10 editions
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“If only the peace I feel right now
could be stored up and released later
when cruelty surrounds me
in the dark
during nightmares.”
― Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
could be stored up and released later
when cruelty surrounds me
in the dark
during nightmares.”
― Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
“I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go...”
― The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
― The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
“I feel the heaviness of nightmares
even though I am awake.
How weary I am, how sleepless
and hopeless—there is no escape
from the torment
of wishes.”
― Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
even though I am awake.
How weary I am, how sleepless
and hopeless—there is no escape
from the torment
of wishes.”
― Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
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What book should we read in July?
You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2019 Newbery contender and already published.
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Front Desk by Kelly Young
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Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
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Amal Unbound
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Bob by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
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The truth as told by Mason Buttle
Rebound by Kwame Alexander
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rebound
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Ghost Boys
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Lightning Girl
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Hunger A Tale of Courage
Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead
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166 total votes
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