Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Engle, Margarita

ISBN 10: 0805086749 / ISBN 13: 9780805086744

Published by Henry Holt & Company, 2008

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First Edition with a complete numberline. A Near Fine copy with minimal shelfwear in a Near Fine dust jacket, internally clean and free of markings. // '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.' -- publisher.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805086749
• ISBN 13: 9780805086744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

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.