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Margarita Engle
214 Total Resources 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards 176 Total Book Awards 54 Books
Our Original Resources 15
Guest Blogger: Margarita Engle “Light for All Virtual Book Tour”
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Guest Blogger: Margarita Engle “Writing Historical Novels in Verse, like THE WILD BOOK”
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about Un pregón de frutasUn pregón de frutas
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about A Song of Frutas
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about Light for All
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about The Firefly Letters
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about The Poet Slave of Cuba
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about Dancing Hands
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about The Lightning Dreamer
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about Drum Dream Girl
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about Enchanted Air
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about Hurricane Dancers
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about The Wild Book
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Meet-the-Author Recording with Margarita Engle about The Surrender Tree
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Margarita Engle
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TeachingBooks Guest Blogger: Margarita Engle “Light for All Virtual Book Tour”
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TeachingBooks Guest Blogger: Margarita Engle “Writing Historical Novels in Verse, like THE WILD BOOK”
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Spanish and English (Bilingual) Interview with Margarita Engle
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On how her parents met with Margarita Engle
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On visiting Cuba with Margarita Engle
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On writing about Cuba with Margarita Engle
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On writing about freedom with Margarita Engle
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On family stories with Margarita Engle
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On writing poetry with Margarita Engle
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On writing free verse with Margarita Engle
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On writing poetry outdoors with Margarita Engle
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Advice on writing poetry for teens with Margarita Engle
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On readers theater with Margarita Engle
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On the Pura Belpré Awards with Margarita Engle
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On sugar in Cuba with Margarita Engle
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Novels in verse discussion with Margarita Engle
Created by Latinx KidLit Book Festival
Interview with Margarita Engle
Created by Mom.com
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Interview with Margarita Engle
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Interview with Margarita Engle
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Interview with Margarita Engle
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Interview with Margarita Engle
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Interview with Margarita Engle
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Interview with Margarita Engle
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May 23, 2017 interview with Margarita Engle
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March 23, 2016 interview with Margarita Engle
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Interview with Margarita Engle
Created by Teaching Latin America through Literature
Interview with Margarita Engle
Created by Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
Interview with Margarita Engle
Created by Toasted Cheese
Interview with Margarita Engle
Created by Multicultural Children's Book Day
Interview with Margarita Engle
Created by Behind the Books
Interview with Margarita Engle about Water Day
Created by Latinx in Publishing
Panel discussion with Margarita Engle about With a Star in My Hand
Created by Latinx KidLit Book Festival
Interview with Margarita Engle about When You Wander
Created by No Water River
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Guest Post by Margarita Engle about Destiny Finds Her Way
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Wings in the Wild
Created by Diverse Verse
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Singing with Elephants
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Firefly Letters
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Hurricane Dancers
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Summer Birds
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On the meaning of fireflies with Margarita Engle about The Firefly Letters
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Surrender Tree
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Poet Slave of Cuba
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Drum Dream Girl
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Drum Dream Girl
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Américas Award acceptance speech by Margarita Engle about Silver People
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2016 Pura Belpré Award Acceptance Speech given by Margarita Engle about Enchanted Air
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Singing with Elephants
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Your Heart, My Sky
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Interview with Margarita Engle about A Song of Frutas
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Interview with Margarita Engle about A Song of Frutas
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Silver People
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Guest post by Margarita Engle about The Sky Painter
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Sky Painter
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Sky Painter
Created by Kid Lit Frenzy
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Mountain Dog
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Bravo!
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Poet Slave of Cuba
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Walter Dean Myers Award acceptance speech by Margarita Engle about Enchanted Air
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Firefly Letters
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Jazz Owls
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Jazz Owls
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Forest World
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Silver People
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Silver People
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Silver People
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Bravo!
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Enchanted Air
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Enchanted Air
Created by Poetry for Children
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Hurricane Dancers
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Miguel's Brave Knight
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Interview with Margarita Engle about All the Way to Havana
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Lion Island
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Lightning Dreamer
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Lightning Dreamer
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Wild Book
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Interview with Margarita Engle about The Wild Book
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Tropical Secrets
Created by Publishers Weekly
Lifetime Achievement Awards 2
Books by Margarita Engle 54
![Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0544102290.jpg)
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
53 Resources14 Awards
![Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal](/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0544109414.jpg)
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
44 Resources14 Awards
![Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir](/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481435221.jpg)
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
41 Resources14 Awards
![The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0547807430.jpg)
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
40 Resources11 Awards
![The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano](/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0805077065.jpg)
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
by Margarita Engle and Sean Qualls
39 Resources5 Awards
![Bravo!: Poems about Amazing Hispanics](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0805098763.jpg)
![All the Way to Havana](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1627796428.jpg)
![The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom](/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0805086749.jpg)
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
35 Resources7 Awards
![A Song of Frutas](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1534444890.jpg)
![The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0805090827.jpg)
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
32 Resources5 Awards
![The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist](/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1477826335.jpg)
The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist
by Margarita Engle and Aliona Bereghici
31 Resources3 Awards
![Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote](/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1561458562.jpg)
Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
by Margarita Engle and Raúl Colón
31 Resources5 Awards
![Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1534429530.jpg)
Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air
30 Resources7 Awards
![Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck](/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0805092404.jpg)
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
29 Resources4 Awards
![Mountain Dog](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0805095160.jpg)
![Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots](/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1534409432.jpg)
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
by Margarita Engle and Rudy Gutierrez
28 Resources6 Awards
![Un pregón de frutasUn pregón de frutas](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/153446218X.jpg)
![Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words](/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1481461125.jpg)
Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words
26 Resources5 Awards
![The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar](/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1481445022.jpg)
The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar
by Margarita Engle and Sara Palacios
26 Resources2 Awards
![Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger](/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1534464964.jpg)
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
26 Resources4 Awards
![Light for All](/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1534457275.jpg)
![Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba](/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0805089365.jpg)
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
25 Resources2 Awards
![With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1534424938.jpg)
With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero
25 Resources4 Awards
![La joven aviadora: Aída de Acosta sube muy alto](/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1534482156.jpg)
La joven aviadora: Aída de Acosta sube muy alto
by Margarita Engle and Sara Palacios
25 Resources1 Award
![Water Day](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1665918713.jpg)
![¡Bravo!: Poemas Sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1250113660.jpg)
¡Bravo!: Poemas Sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
24 Resources1 Award
![Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0805089373.jpg)
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
by Margarita Engle and Julie Paschkis
23 Resources2 Awards
![Las Escultoras de la Luz](/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1478885807.jpg)
![Orangutanka: A Story in Poems](/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0805098399.jpg)
![The Sculptors of Light: Poems about Cuban Women Artists](/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1478879602.jpg)
The Sculptors of Light: Poems about Cuban Women Artists
by Margarita Engle and Cecilia Puglesi
22 Resources3 Awards
![Rima's Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1534486933.jpg)
Rima's Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny
21 Resources3 Awards
![Tu corazón, mi cielo: El amor en los tiempos del hambre](/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1534482172.jpg)
Tu corazón, mi cielo: El amor en los tiempos del hambre
by Margarita Engle and Alexis Romay
21 Resources1 Award
![Isla de leones: El guerrero Cubano de las palabras](/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1534446478.jpg)
Isla de leones: El guerrero Cubano de las palabras
19 Resources1 Award
![Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish](/content/ingram_images_hi/0/054785286X.jpg)
![El día del agua](/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1665926953.jpg)
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