The Surrender Tree / El Árbol De La Rendición
Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom/ Poemas De La Lucha De Cuba Por Su Libertad (bilingual)
Square Fish · Print & ebook · March 16, 2010
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle For Freedom / El árbol de la rendición: poemas de la lucha de cuba por su libertad is a lyrical, Newbery Honor-winning history in poems, and this bilingual edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book. ¿La Guerra Chiquita? ¿Cómo puede haber una guerra chiquita? ¿Acaso algunas muertes son más pequeñas que otras, dejan madres que lloran un poco menos?
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- Who it’s for
- Poems bring Cuba’s struggle for freedom into a lyrical, bilingual account of a true folk hero.
- Themes
- Cuban independence struggle, Wartime illness and displacement, Healing amid conflict
- Genres
- Novels in Verse for Teens, Caribbean & Latin America for Teens, Hispanic & Latino YA
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The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle For Freedom / El árbol de la rendición: poemas de la lucha de cuba por su libertad is a lyrical, Newbery Honor-winning history in poems, and this bilingual edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book. ¿La Guerra Chiquita? ¿Cómo puede haber una guerra chiquita? ¿Acaso algunas muertes son más pequeñas que otras, dejan madres que lloran un poco menos? It is 1896.
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Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish—Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? Using the true story of the folk hero Rosa la Bayamesa, acclaimed poet Margarita Engle gives us another gripping, breathtaking account of a tumultuous period in Cuban history. A 2009 Newbery Honor Book Winner of the 2009 Pura Belpré Medal for Narrative Winner of the 2009 Bank Street - Claudia Lewis Award A 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year
History in Two Languages
Poems bring Cuba’s struggle for freedom into a lyrical, bilingual account of a true folk hero.
Come here for
- Cuban history rendered in verse
- English and Spanish together in one book
Expect
- A narrative shaped by poems, not prose
- A wartime story attentive to care across racial lines
Where it sits
| Hispanic & Latino YA | 88% |
|---|---|
| Caribbean & Latin America for Teens | 76% |
| Novels in Verse for Teens | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Central & South America History
- Novels in Verse for Teens
- Caribbean & Latin America for Teens
- Authors
- Margarita Engle
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- March 16, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Cuban independence struggle · Wartime illness and displacement · Healing amid conflict
- Reading lane
- Central & South America History