Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
Acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells a deeply felt and engrossing (Horn Book Magazine) story of love in a time of hunger inspired by her own family's struggles during a dark period in Cuba's history.The people of Cuba are living in el período especial en tiempos de paz?the special period in times of peace. That's what the government insists that this era must be called, but the reality behind these words is starvation. Liana is struggling to find enough to eat. Yet hunger has also made her brave: she finds the courage to skip a summer of so-called volunteer farm labor, even though she risks government retribution. Nearby, a quiet, handsome…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5344-6497-1
- EAN: 9781534464971
- Produktnummer: 36902316
- Verlag: Atheneum Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.0 cm 181 g
- Auflage: Reprint
- Gewicht: 181
- Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 17 J.
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.
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