Margarita Engle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Engle's spare, rhythmic text gets at the heart of the struggle to achieve a dream in this picture-book biography about a Chinese African Cuban girl who aspired to play drums even when society's double standards stood as a barrier. Growing up in tempestuous 1930s Havana, during a time when universities were often shut down because of their opposition to the dictatorial President Machado, Millo Castro Zaldarriaga dared to dream of playing percussion...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. In passionate, accessible verses of her own, Engle evokes the voice of this book-loving feminist and abolitionist who bravely...
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 Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. In passionate, accessible verses of her own, Engle evokes the voice of this book-loving feminist and abolitionist who bravely...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
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 everyone gets home safe and sound.
Full of interesting facts about search-and-rescue dogs and tips for young children in case they get lost, Margarita...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States. Teresa felt lonely in this unfamiliar place, where few of the people she met spoke Spanish. Worst...
Author
Language
English
Description
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 music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream. Inspired by the childhood of Millo Castro...
Author
Language
English
Description
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL! 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 music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream. Inspired...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From Juana Briones and Juan Ponce de León to eighteenth-century slaves and modern-day sixth graders, the many and varied people depicted here speak to the experiences and contributions of Latinos throughout the history of the United States, from the earliest known stories up to the present day. A portrait of a great, enormously varied, and enduring heritage, this is a compelling treatment of an important topic. Some voices are composite characters,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
183 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Juan Francisco Manzano was born in 1797 into the household of wealthy slaveowners in Cuba. He spent his early years at the side of his owner's wife, entertaining her friends. His poetry was his outlet, reflecting the beauty and cruelty of his world. Written in verse.
13) Alas salvajes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America. There she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
14) Water day
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edici�on de tapa dura de Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this ... memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl living in the Middle Ages who took the time to observe the life cycle of butteflies--and in so doing disproved a theory that went all the way back to ancient Greece.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Desde el arte popular hasta la fotogra̕fa, desde la arquitectura hasta la pintura, desde la escultura hasta la msica, las artistas cubanas han pasado desapercibidas a escala mundial durante mucho tiempo. Esta colecc̤in de poe̕sa destaca las vidas y legados de ocho mujeres cubanas que han redefinido el arte en sus comunidades."--Translated.
From folk art to photography, architecture to painting, sculpture to music, female Cuban artists have long...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
144 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes.