Margarita: 198 books
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...
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...
Nutrición vegetariana
Una guía práctica para ser vegetariano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Un manual con más de 500 recetas para quienes han adoptado un estilo de vida vegetariano.
Margarita Chávez Martínez, una de las pioneras de la medicina natural en nuestro país, nos ofrece aquí un volumen invaluable sobre comida y nutrición vegetariana.
Más que un recetario, este...
El perfecto en el español de Lima
Variación y cambio en situación de contacto lingüístico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 1, 2014
En Lima, capital del Perú que reúne a casi un tercio de la población del país, confluyen las hablas del Perú y se producen interacciones comunicativas que dan lugar a procesos de variación y cambio lingüísticos y al surgimiento de nuevos patrones en el habla. Aun así, son pocos los estudios...
International Migration in Cuba
Accumulation, Imperial Designs, and Transnational Social Fields
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue....
by Margarita Gleba
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Older than both ceramics and metallurgy, textile production is a technology which reveals much about prehistoric social and economic development. This book examines the archaeological evidence for textile production in Italy from the transition between the Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages until the...
Kings of the Grail
Tracing the Historic Journey of the Cup of Christ from Jerusalem to Modern-Day Spain
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
“Stand down, Indiana Jones: these two historians say the holy grail has been discovered . . . A ride rich in historical detail” (Publishers Weekly).
Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify where the Holy Grail has been...