Enchanted Air
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In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, 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, friendly and comforting 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 at 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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Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet, novelist, and journalist whose work has been published in many countries. She is the author of young adult nonfiction books and novels in verse including The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor Book, The Poet Slave of Cuba, Hurricane Dancers, The Firefly Letters, and Tropical Secrets. She lives in northern California.
Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban-born American artist and children’s book author. Rodriguez uses a variety of materials, and his work ranges from conceptual to portraiture and landscape. He is the author and illustrator of Sergio Makes a Splash and Sergio Saves the Game, and the illustrator of several esteemed picture-book biographies, including Jonah Winter’s Sonia Sotomayor and Ntozake Shange’s Float Like a Butterfly.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781481435239
- Publication Date
- August 2, 2016
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Original Publication Date
- August 4, 2015
- Page Count
- 224
- Word Count
- 13609
- Audience
- Young Adult
- Reading Age
- 12 - 15 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2014017408
- Lexile® Level
- 1120L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~Z
- ATOS® Book Level
- 6.1
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 2
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 175273
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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