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Now available in Spanish! This gorgeously romantic and contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.Winged beings are meant to be free. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn't meet their approval. Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of chained birds. Then a hurricane exposes the illegal art, and her parents are arrested. Soleida escapes to Central America alone, joining the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica while seeking asylu…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Romay, Alexis (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-66592-770-3
- EAN: 9781665927703
- Produktnummer: 39164770
- Verlag: Atheneum Books
- Sprache: Spanisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.2 cm
Über den Autor
Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima's Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and The Lightning Dreamer. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.Alexis Romay is the author of two novels and two books of poetry. His essays and opinion pieces have been published by NBC News, World Literature Today, Museum of Modern Art, El Nuevo Herald, Latino Rebels, Hypermedia Magazine, Replicante, Letras Libres, and other outlets. He has written lyrics for Paquito D'Rivera and translated over forty picture books, as well as novels by Ana Veciana-Suarez, Margarita Engle, Miguel Correa Mujica, Meg Medina, Stuart Gibbs, and Adrianna Cuevas. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, son, dog, and a few books, and writes about Cuba, literature, and other chronic pains.
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Dreams from Many Rivers - A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems (Unabridged)
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Dancing Hands - How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln (Unabridged)
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