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[2017]., Primary, Henry Holt and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition--2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
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-- Bravo!: poemas sobre hispanos extraordinarios[2017], Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 811 .608 Edition: First edition---201 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Bold, graphic portraits and beautiful poems present famous and lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have faced life's challenges in creative ways.
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-- Bravo!: poemas sobre hispanos extraordinarios[2017], Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 811 .608 Edition: First edition---201 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Bold, graphic portraits and beautiful poems present famous and lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have faced life's challenges in creative ways.
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2019., Juvenile, Atheneum Call No: 786.2092 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a little girl, Teresa Carre o loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. Soon she was writing her own songs and performing in grand cathedrals. Then a revolution in Venezuela forced her family to flee to the United States. Still, Teresa kept playing, and soon she grew famous as the talented Piano Girl who could play anything from a folk song to a sonata. So famous, in fact, that President Abraham Lincoln wanted her to play at the White House!
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[2019]., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Piano prodigy Teresa Carreño and her family escape a violent civil war in Venezuela and emigrate to the United States only to find another civil war going on. Nonetheless, Teresa keeps the magic of music alive, and at ten years old, plays for President Lincoln. Includes a historical note.
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[2015], Primary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: 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.
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[2015], Primary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2015], Primary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2015., Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HI-INT B ENG Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Margarita fears for her faraway family. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts into the Bay of Pigs invasion, Margarita's worlds collide in the worst way possible. How can the two countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?.
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2016., Juvenile, Atheneum Call No: B ENGLE Edition: First Atheneum paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Margarita Engle grew up a child of two worlds--Los Angeles during the school year, Cuba, her mother's island home, in the summers. However, when the Bay of Pigs event happens, Margarita finds her two worlds, the U.S. and Cuba, meeting in the worst way possible. In this memoir, Margarita Engle relates how she saw the events of these times and how they have shaped her as a poet.
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2010., Henry Holt Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Collects poems from Cuban-American poet Margarita Engle in which she explores women rights with various historical viewpoints.
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2010., Juvenile, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: 811.54 Eng Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the poetry of Fredrika Bremer as she describes her journey to Cuba and the women she came to know that transformed the life of this nineteenth century women's rights pioneer.
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2014., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: 811 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Meet the first pirates of the Caribbean and the boy who escaped from them named Quebrado.
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-- First Caribbean pirate shipwreck2011., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.
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-- First Caribbean pirate shipwreck2011., Juvenile, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: 811.54 Eng Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Quebrado, half islander, half outsider, toils under the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera as a translator to navigate the Caribbean. When a hurricane destroys the ship, Quebrado finds safety on an island but now the tides have turned and he is responsible for the fate of his former captors.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical Fic Engle Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: Historical Fiction FIC GUT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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2013., Adolescent, Harcourt Call No: JNF042000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
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2013., Adolescent, Harcourt Call No: Historical Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
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-- Young Cervantes and his dream of Don Quixote2023., Juvenile, Peachtree Call No: 811 .54 Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Illustrations and poems present the story of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes' childhood and how his experiences influenced him to grow up and become the famous author of "Don Quixote."
