Red paper-covered boards with black backstrip and red lettering. Minor rubbing to edges. Text is clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ shows minor scuffing, two metallic award stickers to front cover. "Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. Rosa knows how to heal sickness with medicines made from wild plants. But with a price on her head for helping the rebels, Rosa dares not go out in the open. Instead, she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish- Rosa does her best for everyone, even Lieutenant Death, who has sworn to kill her. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? In this history in verse, Engle has created a lyrical, powerful portrait of Cuba." (from the jacket).

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Title

The Surrender Tree; Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company, New York

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

0805086749

ISBN 13

9780805086744

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Stated First Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Poetry

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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.

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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