Engle, Margarita

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.

A collection of poems in which Rosa, a healer, describes her experiences trying to help Cuban peasants who have been forced to leave their farms and villages in 1896 and given eight days to find their way to "reconcentration camps" or be killed.

A collection of illustrated poems about the childhood of Miguel de Cervantes and his character Don Quixote.

A picture book that relates the true story of A?da de Acosta, the first woman to fly a motorized aircraft.

A collection of illustrated poems about the childhood of Miguel de Cervantes and his character Don Quixote.

Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.

Illustrated poems present famous and lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have faced life's challenges in creative ways.

Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.

Presents the thoughts of Fredrika Bremer as she describes her journey to Cuba and the women she came to know that transformed the life of this nineteenth century women's rights pioneer.