The Surrender Tree - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Surrender Tree write by Margarita Engle. This book was released on 2008-04. The Surrender Tree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.
Tropical Secrets
Tropical Secrets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropical Secrets write by Margarita Engle. This book was released on 2009-03-31. Tropical Secrets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away . . .
The Poet Slave of Cuba
The Poet Slave of Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poet Slave of Cuba write by Margarita Engle. This book was released on 2015-01-13. The Poet Slave of Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, young Juan still showed an exceptional talent for poetry. His verses reflect the beauty of his world, but they also expose its hideous cruelty. Powerful, haunting poems and breathtaking illustrations create a portrait of a life in which even the pain of slavery could not extinguish the capacity for hope. The Poet Slave of Cuba is the winner of the 2008 Pura Belpre Medal for Narrative and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. Latino Interest.
Mountain Dog
Mountain Dog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain Dog write by Margarita Engle. This book was released on 2013-08-13. Mountain Dog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 his Tió and a search-and-rescue dog named Gabe by his side, he learns how to track wild animals, is welcomed to the Cowboy Church, and makes new friends at the Mountain School. Most importantly though, it is through Gabe that Tony discovers unconditional love for the first time, in Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013
Your Heart, My Sky
Your Heart, My Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Your Heart, My Sky write by Margarita Engle. This book was released on 2022-04-19. Your Heart, My Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
