Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle has written at least 41 books. Their most popular book is Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings with 9 saves with an average rating of 3.67⭐.
Author Bio
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, including Wild Dreamers, a Pura Belpré Honor book that was also long listed for the National Book Award. Wings in the Wild received an International Latino Book Award Gold Medal, and The Surrender Tree, received a Newbery Honor.
Other awards includes Pura Belpré Medals, Walter Honors, Américas Awards, Jane Addams Award, PEN U.S.A., and NSK Neustadt Prize. Margarita served as the national 2017-2019 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Her most recent picture book is Eloísa’s Musical Window, and her next verse novel is Island Creatures.
Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother’s homeland during childhood summers with relatives on the island. She studied agronomy and botany along with creative writing, and now lives in central California with her entomologist husband and soccer playing Border Collie.
http://margaritaengle.com/
 The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
| 3.75 | 4 reads | |
 Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings
| 3.67 | 5 reads | |
 Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
| 4 | 5 reads | |
 Dreams from Many Rivers
| 3 | 1 read | |
 Wild Dreamers
| 3 | 2 reads | |
 The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
| 5 | 1 read | |
 Bravo!
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 Wings in the Wild
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Silver People
| 3 | 1 read | |
 Drum Dream Girl
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Thanku: Poems of Gratitude | 0 | 0 reads | |
 Tropical secrets
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 The Wild Book
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 Tiny rabbit's big wish
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 Rima's Rebellion
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 Your Heart My Sky
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 The Poet Slave of Cuba
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 Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
| 3 | 1 read | |
 Forest World
| 4 | 1 read | |
 All the Way to Havana
| 5 | 1 read | |
 Un pregón de frutas Un pregón de frutas
| 4 | 1 read | |
 A Dog Named Haku: A Holiday Story from Nepal
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 Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
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 La joven aviadora
| 5 | 1 read | |
 Been There, Done That: Writing Stories from Real Life
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 Jazz Owls
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 The Sky Painter The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist
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 Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
| 4.5 | 1 read | |
 The Firefly Letters : A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
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 When you wander
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 Orangutanka
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 Mountain dog
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 Light for All
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 Singing with Elephants
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 Singing to Cuba
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 With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero
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 All the Love Under the Vast Sky
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