The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Published by Henry Holt and Company, 2008
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Signed by author on title page. Stated First Edition. First printing with full number line. Dust jacket not price clipped. DJ in archival sleeve. 169 pp. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. Includes a historical chronology and bibliographic list of references. Cuban history as a verse novel, told though the story of Rosa La Bayamesa (Rosa Maria Castellanos, 1834-1907), a traditional Latin American herbal-medicine healer, nurse, and organizer of field hospitals. Primarily set during the three wars of independence fought by the Cubans against Spain in the later part of the nineteenth century: the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of Independence. Margarita Engle (b. 1951) is a Cuban-American poet, novelist, and journalist. The Surrender Tree was awarded a Newbery Honor in 2009, with Engle being the first Latino to receive the honor. She was selected by the Poetry Foundation to serve as the Young People's Poet Laureate from 2016 to 2019.
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- Title
- The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
- Author
- Margarita Engle
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805086749
- ISBN 13
- 9780805086744
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 ounce
- Dimensions
- 6x0x7
It is 1896. 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? Acclaimed poet Margarita Engle has created another breathtaking portrait of Cuba.
The Surrender Tree is a 2009 Newbery Honor Book, the winner of the 2009 Pura Belpre Medal for Narrative and the 2009 Bank Street - Claudia Lewis Award, and a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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About the Author
Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet, novelist, and journalist whose work has been published in many countries. She is the author of young adult nonfiction books and novels in verse including The Poet Slave of Cuba, Hurricane Dancers, The Firefly Letters, and Tropical Secrets. The Surrender Tree was a Newbery Honor Book. She lives in northern California.
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