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Margarita Engle
Website:www.margaritaengle.com
 
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA    
 
Most recent address:CA    
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311533
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.


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311492
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

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.


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311497
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   


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.


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311415
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.


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311498
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.


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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.


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311493
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.


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311484
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

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.


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311490
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.


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311457
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

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.


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311424
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.


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311499
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.


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