Lightning dreamer : Cuba's greatest abolitionist by Engle, Margarita 

BTSB Prebound(Harcourt, 2013)

BTSB #: 311455 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 6.7 MG+RC: 9.6 6-8 Lexile: 1070

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Gomez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, Gertrudis,|d1814-1873 - Fiction Novels in verse Authors - Fiction Feminists - Fiction Abolitionists - Fiction Cuba - History|y1810-1899 - Fiction

Summary: In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba.

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.