![]() There she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy whose enigmatic music enchants birds and animals-and Soleida. Soleida escapes to Central America alone, joining the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica while seeking asylum elsewhere. Then a hurricane exposes the illegal art, and her parents are arrested. Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of chained birds. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn’t meet their approval. This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights. Carribean Social Justice Picture Books List.Spanish edition of this book will also be released in August 2023. When he comes to town, water flows like hope for the whole familia, and everyone rejoices. Water days are busy days, grateful, laughing, thirsty days.Ī small village no longer has a water supply of its own, but one young girl and her neighbors get by with the help of the water man. Junior Library Guild Selection, for both translationsĪ joyful picture book from acclaimed author Margarita Engle about a young girl and her community celebrating the arrival of the water man who visits weekly to distribute water to the village.More information available through Reycraft Books. This poetry collection highlights the lives and legacies of eight Cuban women who have redefined art in their communities. More information available through Atheneum Books for Young Readers.įrom folk art to photography, architecture to painting, sculpture to music, female Cuban artists have long gone unnoticed on a global scale. In this stirring young adult romance from award-winning author Margarita Engle, love and conservation intertwine as two teens fight to protect wildlife and heal from their troubled pasts. If pumas can find their way to a better tomorrow, surely Ana and Leandro can too. Determined to make a difference, Ana and Leandro start a rewilding club at their school, working with scientists to build wildlife crossings that can help mountain lions find one another. Then they discover they are not alone: a huge mountain lion stalks through the trees, one of many wild animals whose habitat has been threatened by humans. ![]() One moonlit night, in a wilderness park in California, Ana and Leandro meet. Leandro has struggled with debilitating anxiety since his family fled Cuba on a perilous raft. Ana and her mother have been living out of their car ever since her militant father became one of the FBI’s most wanted.
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