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Now available in Spanish! In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. 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. Words and…mehr

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Now available in Spanish! In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. 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. Words and images are her constant companions—sources of comfort when the children at school are not. Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Margarita fears for her far-away 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?
Autorenporträt
Margarita Engle es la autora cubanoamericana de muchas novelas en verso, entre las que se incluyen Con una estrella en la mano; El árbol de la rendición, ganadora del premio de honor Newbery y La selva. También ha escrito dos libros de memorias en verso: La tierra al vuelo y Aire encantado, de los cuáles el último recibió el premio Pura Belpré, la medalla de honor de Walter Dean Myers, en la categoría de jóvenes lectores, y fue finalista del premio YALSA a la excelencia en no-ficción, entre otros premios. Margarita vive en California central. Visítala en MargaritaEngle.com. Alexis Romay es autor de los poemarios Los culpables y Diversionismo ideológico y de las novelas Salidas de emergencia y La apertura cubana. Ha traducido al español los siguientes libros en verso de Margarita Engle: El árbol de la rendición, El caballo Lucero, Aire encantado, La selva, Isla de leones, Con una estrella en la mano, La tierra al vueloy El amor en los tiempos del hambre. Es traductor también de novelas de Miguel Correa Mujica, Ana Veciana Suarez, Meg Medina y Stuart Gibbs.