Margarita Engle: 28 books
Aire encantado (Enchanted Air)
Dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.
En este poético libro de memorias—ganador del premio Pura Belpré de autor,...
Soaring Earth
A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
In this powerful companion to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle recounts her teenage years during the turbulent 1960s.
Margarita Engle’s childhood straddled two worlds: the lush, welcoming island of Cuba and the lonely, dream-soaked reality...
Jazz Owls
A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
From the Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.
Thousands of young Navy sailors are pouring into Los Angeles on their way to the front lines of World War II. They are teenagers, scared, longing to feel alive before they...
Enchanted Air
Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.
Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart...
The Firefly Letters
A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The freedom to roam is something that women and girls in Cuba do not have. Yet when Fredrika Bremer visits from Sweden in 1851 to learn about the people of this magical island, she is accompanied by Cecilia, a young slave who longs for her lost home in Africa. Soon Elena, the wealthy daughter of the...
Lion Island
Cuba's Warrior of Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this “beautifully written, thought provoking” (School Library Journal, starred review) novel in verse, award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the story of Antonio Chuffat, a young man of African, Chinese, and Cuban descent who becomes a champion for civil rights.
Asia, Africa, Europe—Antonio...
Silver People
Voices from the Panama Canal
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
One hundred years ago, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world’s two largest oceans and signaled America’s emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of water where a mountain had stood—and creating a miracle is no easy thing. Thousands...
The Surrender Tree
Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
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...
by Margarita Engle
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
When Tony's mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move—Tony's new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly, against a remote and remarkable backdrop, the scars from Tony's troubled past begin to heal.
With...
by Margarita Engle
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
From Young People’s Poet Laureate and award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively middle grade novel in verse that tells the story of a Cuban-American boy who visits his family’s village in Cuba for the first time—and meets a sister he didn’t know he had.
Edver isn’t happy...
by Margarita Engle, Valerie Hobbs, Jon J Muth
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Hilarious and heartwarming stories by nine renowned authors:
· Ann M. Martin
· Wendy Orr
· Pam Muñoz Ryan
· Mark Teague
· Thacher Hurd
· Valerie Hobbs
· Margarita Engle
· Matt de la Peña
· Jon J Muth
Adventures abound...
The Flying Girl
How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In this beautiful picture book filled with soaring words and buoyant illustrations, award-winners Margarita Engle and Sara Palacios tell the inspiring true story of Aída de Acosta, the first woman to fly a motorized aircraft.
On a lively street in the lovely city of Paris, a girl named Aída...
Orangutanka
A Story in Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
All the orangutans are ready for a nap in the sleepy depths of the afternoon . . . all except one. This little orangutan wants to dance! A hip-hop, cha-cha-cha dance full of somersaults and cartwheels. But who will dance with her?
Written in bold poems in the tanka style, an ancient Japanese form...
When You Wander
A Search-and-Rescue Dog Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
When you wander
down a leafy path
I can smell
your invisible
trail . . .
This cozy story gently teaches children what to do if they lose their way, and reassures them that a search-and-rescue dog can find them wherever they are. And once a child is found, the dog will bring people to make sure that...
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