Engle, Margarita
Summary: "In this follow-up to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Margarita Engle details her teenage years in Los Angeles against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War. In vulnerable verse, she addresses the notions of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection that are once again under threat. Despite these circumstances, young Margarita was able to find solace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Bold, graphic portraits and beautiful poems present famous and lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have faced life's challenges in creative ways."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados...Soleida huye sola a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: Describes how Miguel de Cervantes found refuge from his childhood troubles by daydreaming of a brave knight who would right the wrongs of the world, the inspiration for his famous character Don Quixote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 811 ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: Looks at the life and accomplishments of Teresa Carreäno, one of the world's most famous pianists who, by age nine, performed for President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAREngle, Margarita
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ENGEngle, Margarita
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2023