Margarita Engle
211 Total Resources 2 Lifetime Achievement Awards 179 Total Book Awards 56 Books
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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 Drum Dream Girl
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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 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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About the Author 2
Author Interviews 76
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
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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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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 about Singing with Elephants
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Singing with Elephants
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Miguel's Brave Knight
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Drum Dream Girl
Created by Kirkus Reviews
Guest Post by Margarita Engle about Wild Dreamers
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Water Day
Created by Latinx in Publishing
Panel discussion with Margarita Engle about With a Star in My Hand
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Interview with Margarita Engle about When You Wander
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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
Interview with Margarita Engle about Tiny Rabbit's Big Wish
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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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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 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
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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
Created by Library of Congress
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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Nonfiction Award Finalist Speech, 2016, given by Margarita Engle about Enchanted Air
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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 Bravo!
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Enchanted Air
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Interview with Margarita Engle about Enchanted Air
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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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Lifetime Achievement Awards 2
Books by Margarita Engle 56
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
47 Resources14 Awards
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
39 Resources14 Awards
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
39 Resources14 Awards
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
37 Resources11 Awards
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
by Margarita Engle and Sean Qualls
36 Resources5 Awards
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
31 Resources7 Awards
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
28 Resources5 Awards
The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist
by Margarita Engle and Aliona Bereghici
27 Resources3 Awards
Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
by Margarita Engle and Raúl Colón
27 Resources5 Awards
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
by Margarita Engle and Rudy Gutierrez
26 Resources6 Awards
Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air
26 Resources7 Awards
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
24 Resources4 Awards
Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words
23 Resources5 Awards
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
23 Resources4 Awards
The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar
by Margarita Engle and Sara Palacios
22 Resources2 Awards
With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero
22 Resources4 Awards
La joven aviadora: Aída de Acosta sube muy alto
by Margarita Engle and Sara Palacios
21 Resources1 Award
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
20 Resources2 Awards
¡Bravo!: Poemas Sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios
by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
20 Resources1 Award
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
by Margarita Engle and Julie Paschkis
19 Resources2 Awards
Rima's Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny
18 Resources3 Awards
Tu corazón, mi cielo: El amor en los tiempos del hambre
by Margarita Engle and Alexis Romay
18 Resources1 Award
The Sculptors of Light: Poems about Cuban Women Artists
by Margarita Engle and Cecilia Puglesi
18 Resources3 Awards
Isla de leones: El guerrero Cubano de las palabras
16 Resources1 Award
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