Margarita Engle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba. -WorldCat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. 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. As she begins to create a world of words for herself, Oriol learns...
5) Mountain dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
Author
Lexile measure
AD 1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lyrical and unifying picture book that “will inspire young readers” and “magnificently showcases the immigrant experience” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) in America from Newbery Honoree Margarita Engle and award-winning illustrator Raúl Colón. Discover the myriad contributions that all immigrants have made as they come to join family or start their own lives together in a new country they call home. Coming with their hopes, dreams, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
10) Soaring earth
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
Margarita Engle details her teenage years in Los Angeles against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War. In vulnerable verse, she addresses the notions of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection that are once again under threat. Despite these circumstances, young Margarita was able to find solace and empowerment through her education.
11) A song of frutas
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1240L
Language
English
Description
While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes how Miguel de Cervantes found refuge from his childhood troubles by daydreaming of a brave knight who would right the wrongs of the world, the inspiration for his famous character Don Quixote.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1240L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A middle grade verse history of Latinos in the United States, told through the voices of many and varied individuals ranging from Juan Ponce de León to modern-day sixth graders"--
16) The wild book
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
For most Cubans in the nineteenth century life is anything but beautiful. The country is fighting for freedom from Spain. Enslaved Africans and nearly-enslaved Chinese indentured servants are forced to work long, backbreaking hours in the fields. Antonio feels lucky to have found a good job as a messenger, where his richly blended cultural background is an asset. Through his work he meets Wing, a young Chinese fruit seller who barely escaped the anti-Asian...
19) Alas salvajes
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
920L
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"The Spanish edition of Margarita Engle's award winning memoir, Enchanted Air"--
Offers an account of the first fourteen years of the author's life in poems, telling of her time spent between Cuba and her home in Los Angeles, until the revolution in Cuba dramatically alters relations between the two countries she loves.