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Review of Water Day
Water Day by Margarita Engle; illus. by Olivia SuaPrimary Atheneum 40 pp.8/23 9781665918718 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665918725 $10.99Spanish ed. 9781665926959 $18.99“Water days are busy days, grateful, laughing, thirsty days.” A young girl tells of her Cuban neighborhood’s experience of the “water man’s” once-every-five-days visit to deliver water for all the residents’...
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Review of Wings in the Wild
Wings in the Wild by Margarita EngleHigh School Atheneum 224 pp.4/23 9781665926362 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665926386 $10.99Can a “tocororo-girl” and a “song-boy” find love in the mountains of Costa Rica? In this novel set in 2018, two teens from vastly different worlds tell their stories in free verse poems, alternating points...
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Review of Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny
Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny by Margarita EngleMiddle School, High School Atheneum 208 pp. g2/22 978-1-5344-8693-5 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-8695-9 $10.99This historical novel in verse, set mainly in 1920s Cuba, is an engrossing look at the protracted fight for women’s suffrage there. The story is told through the...
Review of Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger by Margarita Engle Middle School, High School Atheneum 224 pp. g 3/21 978-1-5344-6496-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-6498-8 $10.99 Engle (Enchanted Air, rev. 7/15; Soaring Earth, rev. 3/19) once again revisits her Cuban heritage and demonstrates an abiding appreciation of nature...
Lighting the Candle: Inherited Exile
When I was little, my mother read poetry to me in Spanish. José Martí’s Versos sencillos were the essence of my memories from those early years. Even though he died in battle, his rosa blanca of forgiveness for enemies had an enormous impact on my lifelong commitment to peacemaking. After...
Review of With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero
With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero by Margarita Engle Middle School, High School Atheneum 150 pp. g 2/20 978-1-5344-2493-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2495-1 $10.99 Written in first person, this heartfelt verse novel tells the fictionalized story of Rubén Darío (based on his autobiography), who was born...
Review of Dancing Hands
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle; illus. by Rafael López Primary Atheneum 40 pp. 8/19 978-1-4814-8740-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-8741-2 $10.99 Engle and López (Drum Dream Girl, rev. 5/15) bring us another engaging story about a young, successful, female musician of Latinx...
Review of Soaring Earth
Soaring Earthby Margarita EngleMiddle School, High School Atheneum 160 pp. g2/19 978-1-5344-2953-6 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2955-0 $10.99In this companion verse memoir to Enchanted Air (rev. 7/15), Engle provides a glimpse into her high school years in Los Angeles and early adulthood as a Cuban American person coming to an understanding of...
Review of The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar
The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soarby Margarita Engle;
illus. by Sara PalaciosPrimary Atheneum 40 pp.3/18 978-1-4814-4502-3 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-4503-0 $10.99In this slightly fictionalized account (with brief invented dialogue) Engle and Palacios introduce readers to Aída de Acosta (1884–1962), who defied the sexist attitudes of her era...
Review of Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riotsby Margarita Engle; illus. by Rudy GutierrezMiddle School, High School Atheneum 179 pp. g5/18 978-1-5344-0943-9 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-0945-3 $10.99In 1942 Los Angeles, after working all day at the canneries, teen sisters Lorena and Marisela can’t wait to put on their sharpest swing...
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