Book of the Day #4: “Wild Dreamers”

Title: “Wild Dreamers”

Author: Margarita Engle

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub Date: April 23, 2024

Summary: “How do we leave our mark when it feels like the world has no space for us? This is a tale of love, hope, and animal conservation.”

Review: “Emotions run deep and true in the concrete poems and free verse, which offer complex relationships that are familial, cultural, romantic, and environmental, appropriately blurring the lines between them for readers already invested in effecting heartfelt change.” — The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Starred Review

Awards: National Book Award Long List, Junior Library Guild Selection

Notes: Conservation. Diversity. Ages 12-18. Award-winning author of Drum Dream Girl and The Poet Slave of Cuba, The Surrender Tree, and many others.

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Wild Dreamers
  • Hardcover Book
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 224 Pages – 04/23/2024 (Publication Date) – Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Publisher)

Other Books by Margarita Engle

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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 224 Pages – 08/02/2016 (Publication Date) – Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 41 Pages – 01/12/2021 (Publication Date) – Two Lions (Publisher)
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Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
  • Hardcover Book
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 40 Pages – 08/27/2019 (Publication Date) – Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
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A Song of Frutas
  • Hardcover Book
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 40 Pages – 08/03/2021 (Publication Date) – Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
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The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 176 Pages – 03/07/2017 (Publication Date) – Square Fish (Publisher)
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The Surrender Tree / El árbol de la rendición: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom/ Poemas de la lucha de Cuba por su libertad (Bilingual)
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 384 Pages – 03/16/2010 (Publication Date) – Square Fish (Publisher)
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music
  • Hardcover Book
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 48 Pages – 03/31/2015 (Publication Date) – Clarion Books (Publisher)
Forest World
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 224 Pages – 08/28/2018 (Publication Date) – Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
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The Wild Book
  • Engle, Margarita (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 144 Pages – 01/07/2014 (Publication Date) – Clarion Books (Publisher)

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