Margarita Engle Website:www.margaritaengle.com Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA Most recent address:CA Author Biography Margarita Engle was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and spent the summers in her mother's native country of Cuba. She studied agronomy and botany and was the first female agronomy professor at Cal Poly Pomona and a Ph.D candidate at UC Riverside when she took a creative writing seminar with Tomas Rivera. With his encouragement, she became a writer. Engle received a Pura Belpre Honor for Firefly in 2011, a Newbery Honor and Pura Belpre Medal for Surrender Tree in 2009, and a Pura Belpre Medal for Poet Slave Of Cuba in 2007. She enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs. Updating Results ... You are viewing: Author - Margarita EngleSort By Age Sort By Author Sort By Availability Sort By Dewey Sort By Media, Author, Title Sort By Price Sort By Pub. 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Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.78 * 0.00 +- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreno played the piano for President Lincoln by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019) BTSB #: 311492 Available Dewey: 786.2092/BAges: 4-8 AR: 5.5 LG RC: 11.9 3-5 Lexile: 1260 NC F&P: P Genres: Subjects: Carreno, Teresa,|d1853-1917 Lincoln, Abraham,|d1809-1865 Pianists - United States - Biography Gifted children - Biography United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War - Biography Summary: The story of Teresa Carreno, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.78 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2019) BTSB #: 311481 Available Dewey: 811/NAges: 10-14 AR: 7.3 MG Lexile: 1240 Genres: Multicultural Subjects: Children's poetry Latinos (U.S.) - History Summary: A middle grade verse history of Latinos in the United States, told through the voices of many and varied individuals ranging from Juan Ponce de Leon to modern-day sixth graders. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 21.38 * 0.00 +- Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) BTSB #: 311468 In Bindery Dewey: EAges: 4-8 AR: 4.2 LG RC: 4.3 3-5 Lexile: NP Genres: Subjects: Drummers (Musicians) - Fiction Dance music - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Cuba - History|y1909-1933 - Fiction Summary: 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. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.08 * 0.00 +- Light for all by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2020) BTSB #: 311428 Available Dewey: EAges: 4-8 Lexile: 1010 AD Genres: Multicultural Subjects: Immigrants - Fiction Acculturation - Fiction Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) - Fiction United States - Immigration and emigration - Fiction Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text tell of travelers who have left their homelands to bring their talents, hopes, and determination to a land where Liberty's light shines for all. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.08 * 0.00 +- Lion Island : Cuba's warrior of words by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016) BTSB #: 311474 Available Dewey: FAges: 10-14 AR: 6.8 MG Lexile: 1110 Genres: Historical Fiction Subjects: Chuffat Latour, Antonio,|d1860- - Childhood and youth - Fiction Novels in verse Racially mixed people - Fiction Indentured servants - Fiction Slavery - Fiction Chinese - Cuba - Fiction Cuba - History|y1810-1899 - Fiction Summary: A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 21.38 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Singing With Elephants by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound New title, awaiting publication or binding.(VIKING BOOKS, 2022) BTSB #: 311493 In Bindery Dewey: FAges: 8-12 Genres: Animals Subjects: Summary: Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. As she begins to create a world of words for herself, Oriol learns it will take courage to stay true to herself and do what she thinks is right--attempting to rescue a baby elephant in need. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 21.38 * 0.00 +- Soaring earth : a companion memoir to Enchanted air by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019) BTSB #: 311484 Available Dewey: 811/AAges: 12-16 AR: 7.2 MG+ Lexile: 1190 Genres: Subjects: Engle, Margarita Cuban Americans - Biography American women authors|y20th century - Biography Summary: In this follow-up to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Margarita Engle details her teenage years in Los Angeles against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War. In vulnerable verse, she addresses the notions of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection that are once again under threat. Despite these circumstances, young Margarita was able to find solace and empowerment through her education. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.78 * 0.00 +- Song of frutas by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2021) BTSB #: 311490 In Bindery Dewey: EAges: 4-8 Lexile: 1240 AD Genres: Family Life Subjects: Street vendors - Fiction Grandfathers - Fiction Fruit - Fiction Cuban Americans - Fiction Cuba - Fiction Summary: While visiting her abuelo in Cuba, a young girl helps him sell frutas, singing the name of each fruit as they walk, and after she returns to the United States, they exchange letters made of abrazos--hugs. Includes historical and cultural notes. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.08 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Summer birds : the butterflies of Maria Merian by Engle, Margarita BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2010) BTSB #: 311457 Available Dewey: 595.78/NAges: 5-8 AR: 3.2 LG RC: 3.4 K-2 Genres: Subjects: Merian, Maria Sibylla,|d1647-1717 Caterpillars Butterflies Summary: A portrait of Maria Merian, the young girl in the Middle Ages who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 21.38 * 0.00 +- * Your Discounted Price You can't see me! I am INVISIBLE! 10 total titles found Page 1 of 1 View page of 1 1 1 each from this page1 each from all results You are viewing: Author - Margarita EngleSort By Age Sort By Author Sort By Availability Sort By Dewey Sort By Media, Author, Title Sort By Price Sort By Pub. 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