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Author

Margarita Engle

Honors

5 Pura Belpré Award wins, 4 Pura Belpré Award honors, 1 Newbery Medal honor, 1 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults finalist, 1 Texas Bluebonnet Award shortlisting

AwardYearBook
Pura Belpré Award Winner2020Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
Pura Belpré Award Winner2016Drum Dream Girl
Pura Belpré Award Winner2016Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
Pura Belpré Award Winner2009The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Pura Belpré Award Winner2008The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Pura Belpré Award Honor2025Wild Dreamers
Pura Belpré Award Honor2014The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
Pura Belpré Award Honor2012Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
Pura Belpré Award Honor2011The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
Newbery Medal Honor2009The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist2016Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
Texas Bluebonnet Award Shortlist2019Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics

Books

More books by Margarita Engle

  • The Mountain Dog

    The Mountain Dog

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