Margarita Engle

Engle in 2014 Margarita Engle (born in Los Angeles, California on September 2, 1951) is a Cuban American poet and author of many award-winning books for children, young adults and adults. Most of Engle's stories are written in verse and are a reflection of her Cuban heritage and her deep appreciation and knowledge of nature. She became the first Latino awarded a Newbery Honor in 2009 for ''The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom''. She was selected by the Poetry Foundation to serve from 2017 to 2019 as the sixth Young People's Poet Laureate. On October 9, 2018, Margarita Engle was announced the winner of the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. She was nominated by 2019 NSK Prize jury member Lilliam Rivera. Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2021
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  2. Dreams from many rivers
    a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems
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    by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2019
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  3. Dancing hands
    how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln
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    Published 2019
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  4. The lightning dreamer
    Cuba's greatest abolitionist
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    Published 2013
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  5. Enchanted air
    two cultures two wings a memoir
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    Published 2015
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  6. The firefly letters
    a suffragette's journey to Cuba
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    by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2010
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  7. by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2023
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  8. The flying girl
    how Aida de Acosta learned to soar
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    by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2018
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  9. With a star in my hand
    Rubén Darío poetry hero
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    by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2020
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  10. Manos que bailan
    cómo Teresa Carreño tocó el piano para el Presidente Lincoln
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    by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2021
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  12. The lightning dreamer
    Cuba's greatest abolitionist
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    by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2013
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  13. Silver people
    voices from the Panama Canal
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    by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2014
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  14. by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2017
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  15. Tropical secrets
    Holocaust refugees in Cuba
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    Published 2017
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  17. by Engle, Margarita
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  18. Your heart my sky
    love in the time of hunger
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    Published 2022
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  19. by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2014
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  20. Jazz owls
    a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
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    by Engle, Margarita
    Published 2018
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