Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. More information available through Atheneum Books for Young Readers in English and Spanish Edition.Ī powerful novel in verse from Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning author Margarita Engle about the friendship between a young girl and the poet Gabriela Mistral that leads to healing and hope for both of them.Ĭuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong.

They are fighting for a better future-and the chance to be together. But wings can be fragile, and Soleida and Dariel come from different worlds. Soon they discover that love isn’t about falling-it’s about soaring together to new heights. Together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba. There she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy whose enigmatic music enchants birds and animals-and Soleida. Soleida escapes to Central America alone, joining the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica while seeking asylum elsewhere. Then a hurricane exposes the illegal art, and her parents are arrested. Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of chained birds. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn’t meet their approval. This gorgeously romantic 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.

Junior Library Guild Selection, for both translations.

Carribean Social Justice Picture Books List.

Spanish edition of this book will also be released in August 2023. More information available through Atheneum Books for Young Readers. When he comes to town, water flows like hope for the whole familia, and everyone rejoices. Water days are busy days, grateful, laughing, thirsty days.Ī small village no longer has a water supply of its own, but one young girl and her neighbors get by with the help of the water man. A joyful picture book from acclaimed author Margarita Engle about a young girl and her community celebrating the arrival of the water man who visits weekly to distribute water to the village.

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