Margarita Engle Website:www.margaritaengle.com Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA Most recent address:CA Author Biography Margarita Engle was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and spent the summers in her mother's native country of Cuba. She studied agronomy and botany and was the first female agronomy professor at Cal Poly Pomona and a Ph.D candidate at UC Riverside when she took a creative writing seminar with Tomas Rivera. With his encouragement, she became a writer. Engle received a Pura Belpre Honor for Firefly in 2011, a Newbery Honor and Pura Belpre Medal for Surrender Tree in 2009, and a Pura Belpre Medal for Poet Slave Of Cuba in 2007. She enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs. Updating Results ... You are viewing: Author - Margarita EngleSort By Age Sort By Author Sort By Availability Sort By Dewey Sort By Media, Author, Title Sort By Price Sort By Pub. Year Sort by Relevance,Author Sort by Relevance,Title Sort By Stoplight Sort By Title Sort by Language Display 10 items Display 15 items Display 20 items Display 25 items Display 30 items Display 35 items Display 40 items Display 45 items Display 50 items 1 each from this page1 each from all results 13 total titles found Page 1 of 1 View page of 1 1 Simply add a title by clicking the . * Your Discounted Price Canto de los elefantes by Engle, Margarita BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Vintage Espanol, 2023)Publication Date: 09/12/2023 BTSB #: 311533 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-12 Genres: Spanish Language Animals Subjects: Spanish language - Reading materials Cuban Americans - Fiction Writing - Fiction Novels in verse Elephants - Fiction Animal rescue - Fiction Summary: Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. 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 it will take courage to stay true to herself and do what she thinks is right--attempting to rescue a baby elephant in need. In Spanish. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 19.56 * 0.00 +- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)Publication Date: 08/27/2019 BTSB #: 311492 Available Dewey: 786.2092/BAges: 4-8 AR: 5.5 LG RC: 11.9 3-5 Lexile: 1260 NC F&P: P Genres: Subjects: Carreno, Teresa,|d1853-1917 Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865 Pianists - United States - Biography Gifted children - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography Summary: The story of Teresa Carreno, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Destiny finds her way : how a rescued baby sloth learned to be wild by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(National Geographic, 2023)Publication Date: 02/07/2023 BTSB #: 311497 Available Dewey: 599.3/NAges: 6-8 Genres: Subjects: Sloths - Conservation - Costa Rica - Anecdotes Wildlife rescue - Costa Rica - Anecdotes Wildlife rehabilitation - Costa Rica Summary: When Destiny was found by the Sloth Institute in Costa Rica, she was sick, thin, and one of her eyes was closed and not working. The Sloth Institute took her in and introduced her to other sloths as she started to recover. She never regained the use of her one eye, but that didn't stop Destiny from hanging out with her new buddies, or getting healthier and stronger. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.38 * 0.00 +- Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015)Publication Date: 03/24/2015 BTSB #: 311468 Available Dewey: EAges: 4-8 AR: 4.2 LG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: NP Genres: Subjects: Drummers (Musicians) - Fiction Dance music - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Cuba - History|y1909-1933 - Fiction Summary: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.08 * 0.00 +- Eloisa's musical window by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2024)Publication Date: 08/27/2024 BTSB #: 311415 Available Dewey: EAges: 4-8 Genres: Family Life Subjects: Music - Fiction Family life - Fiction Neighbors - Fiction Cuba - Fiction Summary: Eloisa's struggles fade away when she sits by the window and listens to the neighbor's radio, and one magical day young musicians gather outside and turn the neighborhood into a joyful orchestra of neighbors and strangers. Includes information on different instruments. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- Luz para todos by Engle, Margarita BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023)Publication Date: 05/23/2023 BTSB #: 311498 Available Dewey: EAges: 4-8 Genres: Spanish Language Multicultural Subjects: Spanish language - Reading materials Immigrants - Fiction Acculturation - Fiction Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction United States - Immigration and emigration - Fiction Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text tell of travelers who have left their homelands to bring their talents, hopes, and determination to a land where Liberty's light shines for all. In Spanish. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 16.84 * 0.00 +- Nina que sonaba con tambores : de como el valor de una nina cambio la musica by Engle, Margarita BTSB PreboundSPANISH(Clarion, 2024)Publication Date: 08/27/2024 BTSB #: 311539 Available Dewey: EAges: 4-8 Genres: Spanish Language General Fiction Subjects: Drummers (Musicians) - Fiction Dance music - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Spanish language - Reading materials Cuba - History|y1909-1933 - Fiction Summary: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has 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. In Spanish. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 17.29 * 0.00 +- Singing with elephants by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2022)Publication Date: 05/31/2022 BTSB #: 311493 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-12 AR: 6.6 MG Lexile: NP F&P: W Genres: Animals Subjects: Cuban Americans - Fiction Writing - Fiction Novels in verse Elephants - Fiction Animal rescue - Fiction Summary: Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. 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 it will take courage to stay true to herself and do what she thinks is right--attempting to rescue a baby elephant in need. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.38 * 0.00 +- Soaring earth : a companion memoir to Enchanted air by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019)Publication Date: 02/26/2019 BTSB #: 311484 Available Dewey: 811/AAges: 12-16 AR: 7.2 MG+ Lexile: 1190 Genres: Subjects: Engle, Margarita Cuban Americans - Biography American women authors|y20th century - Biography Summary: In this follow-up to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- Song of frutas by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2021)Publication Date: 08/03/2021 BTSB #: 311490 Available Dewey: EAges: 4-8 AR: 4.1 LG Lexile: 1240 AD Genres: Family Life Subjects: Street vendors - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Fruit - Fiction Cuban Americans - Fiction Cuba - Fiction Summary: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.08 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Summer birds : the butterflies of Maria Merian by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2010)Publication Date: 05/15/2010 BTSB #: 311457 Available Dewey: 595.78/NAges: 5-8 AR: 3.2 LG RC: 3.4 K-2 Genres: Subjects: Merian, Maria Sibylla,|d1647-1717 Caterpillars Butterflies Summary: A portrait of Maria Merian, the young girl in the Middle Ages who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.38 * 0.00 +- Water day by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2023)Publication Date: 08/22/2023 BTSB #: 311424 Available Dewey: EAges: 4-8 Genres: Family Life Subjects: Water supply - Fiction Climate change - Fiction Community life - Fiction Cuba - Fiction Summary: A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- Wings in the wild by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum, 2023)Publication Date: 04/18/2023 BTSB #: 311499 Available Dewey: FAges: 12-16 AR: 7.1 UG Lexile: NP Genres: Multicultural Subjects: Novels in verse Environmentalism - Fiction Refugees - Fiction Artists - Fiction Political prisoners - Fiction Protest movements - Fiction Cuban Americans - Fiction Cuba - Fiction Summary: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- * Your Discounted Price You can't see me! 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