Aire encantado (Enchanted Air): Dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria (Spanish Edition)

. She is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, including The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner, and The Lightning Dreamer, a PEN Literary Award for Young Adult Literature winner. Her picture book Drum Dream Girl received the Charlotte Zolotow Award. She continues to visit Cuba as often as she can. Margari

"In Margarita Engle's hauntingly beautiful memoir, readers can't help but feel as if they are pressing their hands with her against ancient cave walls and at the same time falling asleep in a darkened room full of fireflies. Engle's struggle to unite her twin selves the Cuban girl who rides bareback with her cousins under a hot, steamy sun and the American girl who pretends to smoke in the school bathroom lead the way to 'Herds of wild feelings/long extinct.' This is a book to return to, page after page, line after line. Exquisite."--Kathi Appelt, author of The Underneath, Newbery Honor and National Book Award Finalist"

Margarita fears for her far-away family. Now available in Spanish! In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Words and images are her constant companions—sources of comfort when the children at school are not.Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts into the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Margarita’s w