Margarita Engle: 28 books
Dancing Hands
How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
In soaring words and stunning illustrations, Margarita Engle and Rafael López tell the story of Teresa Carreño, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln.
As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music...
Dreams from Many Rivers
A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
From award-winning poet Margarita Engle comes Dreams from Many Rivers, an middle grade verse history of Latinos in the United States, told through many voices, and featuring illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez.
From Juana Briones and Juan Ponce de León, to eighteenth century slaves...
¡Bravo! (Spanish language edition)
Poemas sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Con poemas traducidos por Margarita Engle, ¡Bravo! brilla en esta versión al español. Músico, botánico, jugador de béisbol, piloto—los Latinos incluidos en esta colección provienen de muchos países diferentes y de muchos backgrounds diferentes. ¡Celebre sus logros y sus contribuciones a...
by Margarita Engle
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Now in Spanish, award-winning author Margarita Engle’s lively middle grade novel in verse about 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 about being shipped off to Cuba to visit the...
Isla de leones (Lion Island)
El guerrero cubano de las palabras
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The Spanish translation of this “beautifully written, thought provoking” (School Library Journal, starred review) novel in verse by Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle, which tells the story of Antonio Chuffat, a young man of African, Chinese, and Cuban descent who becomes a champion...
The Lightning Dreamer
Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
“I find it so easy to forget / that I’m just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts.”
Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled their work in metaphor. Of these, the boldest was Gertrudis Gómez de...
Hurricane Dancers
The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado-half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds...
Tropical Secrets
Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
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 his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba.
As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young...
Drum Dream Girl
How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule—until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright...
by Margarita Engle
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping away like bullfrogs. How will she ever understand them?But her mother has an idea. She gives Fefa a...
by Margarita Engle
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
So we purr, cara cara, and we glide, taka taka, and we zoom, zoom, ZOOM!
Together, a boy and his parents drive to the city of Havana, Cuba, in their old family car. Along the way, they experience the sights and sounds of the streets—neighbors talking, musicians performing, and beautiful, colorful...
Bravo!
Poems About Amazing Hispanics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Musician, botanist, baseball player, pilot—the Latinos featured in this collection, Bravo!, come from many different countries and from many different backgrounds. Celebrate their accomplishments and their contributions to a collective history and a community that continues to evolve and thrive...
A Dog Named Haku
A Holiday Story from Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
It's the Festival of Lights in Nepal, and today is the day to honor dogs! Brothers Alu and Bhalu wander the streets of Kathmandu, passing by twirling kites and bamboo swings, looking for a dog to feed. But as night falls, their task begins to feel hopeless, until they spot a small black dog who is...
The Poet Slave of Cuba
A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet.
Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education,...
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