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Ana and her mother have been living out of their car ever since her militant father became one of the FBI’s most wanted. Leandro has struggled with debilitating anxiety since his family fled Cuba on a perilous raft. More about this book >
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, which received a Newbery Honor; and The Lightning Dreamer. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor for Outstanding Children’s Literature, 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.
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