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Author Engle, Margarita.

Title The surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom = El árbol de la rendición : poemas de la lucha de Cuba por su libertad / Margarita Engle ; translation by Alexis Romay.

Imprint New York : Square Fish/Henry Holt, 2010.
©2008

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  811 ENGLE    ---  Available
Edition 1st Square Fish ed.: 2010.
Description 353 p. ; 21 cm.
Note Translated from the English.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168).
Indexed In: Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2009
Christian Library, April 2010
Summary A collection of poems in which Rosa, a healer, describes her experiences trying to help Cuban peasants who have been forced to leave their farms and villages in 1896 and given eight days to find their way to "reconcentration camps" or be killed.
Audience Young Adult Follett School Solutions.
NP Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.4 2.0 121475. 9
Language Text in English and Spanish.
Awards Newbery Medal/Honor, 2009
Pura Belpre Award/Honors, 2009
Subject American poetry.
Bilingual books -- English-Spanish.
Cuba -- History -- Poetry.
Genre/Form Poetry.
Added Author Contains: Engle, Margarita. Surrender tree.
Contains: Engle, Margarita. Surrender tree. Spanish.
Added Title Árbol de la rendición : poemas de la lucha de Cuba por su libertad
ISBN 9780312608712

 
    
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