La selva (Forest World) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Engle, Margarita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1534429301 ISBN 13: 9781534429307

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019

Synopsis

Now in Spanish, award-winning author Margarita Engle’s lively middle grade novel in verse about a Cuban-American boy who visits his family’s village in Cuba for the first time—and meets a sister he didn’t know he had.

Edver isn’t happy about being shipped off to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows. Yet now that travel laws have changed and it’s a lot easier for divided families to be reunited, his mom thinks it's time for some father-son bonding.

Edver doesn’t know what this summer has in store, but he’s definitely not expecting to meet a sister he didn’t know existed! Luza is a year older and excited to see her little brother, until she realizes how different their lives have been. Looking for anything they might have in common, they sneak onto the internet—and accidentally catch the interest of a dangerous wildlife poacher. Edver has fought plenty of villains in video games. Now, to save the Cuban jungle they love, he and Luza are going to have to find a way to conquer a real villain!

A Edver no le hace ninguna gracia que lo envíen a Cuba a ver al padre que apenas conoce. Sin embargo, ahora que las leyes de viaje han cambiado y es mucho más fácil reunir a las familias divididas, su mamá piensa que es hora de que padre e hijo pasen tiempo juntos.

Edver no se imagina lo que le depara el verano, ¡pero definitivamente no espera conocer a la hermana que ni siquiera sabía que existía! Luza es un año mayor y está muy entusiasmada por conocer a su hermanito, hasta que se da cuenta de cuán diferentes han sido sus vidas. A la busca de cualquier cosa que puedan tener en común, se meten en internet y accidentalmente atraen la atención de un peligroso cazador de animales salvajes. Edver ha luchado contra muchísimos villanos en los videojuegos. Ahora, para salvar la selva que tanto quieren, ¡Luza y él tendrán que encontrar un modo de derrotar a un villano real!

About this title

About the Author:

Margarita Engle is the national Young People’s Poet Laureate, and the first Latino to receive that honor. 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 verse memoir, Enchanted Air, received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture book Drum Dream Girl received the Charlotte Zolotow Award. Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother’s homeland during childhood summers with relatives. She continues to visit Cuba as often as she can. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.

Margarita Engle es una poeta y novelista cubano-americana cuyos libros incluyen El árbol de la rendición, ganador del premio de honor Newbery, el premio Jane Adams para libros infantiles, el premio Pura Belpré de autor, el premio de las Américas y el premio de poesía Claudia Lewis; El poeta esclavo de Cuba, ganador del premio Pura Belpré para autores y el premio de las Américas; Secretos tropicales; Las cartas de las luciérnagas; Los bailadores del huracán; El libro salvaje; El soñador del relámpago, ganador del premio literario de PEN para literatura juvenil; Gente plateada; Una niña, un tambor, un sueño, ganador del premio Charlotte Zolotow; Isla de leones; y su libro de memorias Aire encantando, ganador del premio Pura Belpré y del premio de honor Walter Dean Mayers. Vive con su esposo al norte de California. Visítala en MargaritaEngle.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1534429301
• ISBN 13: 9781534429307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224