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All Books By Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle was born in Pasadena, California to an American father and a Cuban mother. While she lived in Los Angeles, Margarita spent many summers living with family in Cuba. That time living in Cuba created a strong bond with the country of her mother. It is that strong bond that flows through Engle’s books.
Website: MargaritaEngle.com
Wikipedia: Margarita Engle
TeachingBooks: Margarita Engle
| Title | Language | Year | Summary | Buy* |
| “Wild Dreamers” | English | 2024 | Summary | Buy* |
| “The Sculptors of Light” | English | 2023 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Las Escultoras de La Luz” | Spanish | 2023 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Water Day” | English | 2023 | Summary | Buy* |
| “El dia del agua” | English | 2023 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Wings in the Wild” | English | 2023 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Alas Salvajes” | Spanish | 2023 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Singing with Elephants” | English | 2022 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Light for All” | English | 2021 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Luz para todos” | Spanish | 2023 | Summary | Buy* |
| “A Song of Frutas” (co-author: Sara Palacios) | English | 2021 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Un Pregón de Frutas” (co-author: Sara Palacios) | Spanish | 2021 | Summary | Buy* |
| “With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero” | English | 2020 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Con una Estrella en la Mano: Rubén Darío” | Spanish | 2020 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems” | English | 2019 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreno Played the Piano for President Lincoln” | English | 2021 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Manos que bailan: Cómo Teresa Carreño tocó el piano para el presidente Lincoln” | Spanish | 2021 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air” | English | 2019 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots” | English | 2018 | Summary | Buy* |
| “The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar” | English | 2021 | Summary | Buy* |
| “La joven aviadora: Aída de Acosta sube muy alto” | Spanish | 2021 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Miguel’s Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote” | English | 2018 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Miguel y su valiente caballero: El joven Cervantes sueña a don Quijote” | Spanish | 2018 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Forest World” | English | 2018 | Summary | Buy* |
| “La Selva” | Spanish | 2018 | Summary | Buy* |
| “All the Way to Havana” | English | 2018 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Todo El Camino Hasta” | Spanish | 2018 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Bravo: Poems about Amazing Hispanics” | English | 2017 | Summary | Buy* |
| “¡Bravo!: Poemas sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios” | Spanish | 2017 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Morning Star Horse” | English | 2017 | Summary | Buy* |
| “El Caballo Lucero” | Spanish | 2017 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Lion Island: Cuba’s Warrior of Words” | English | 2016 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Isla de leones: El guerrero cubano de las palabras | Spanish | 2019 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir” | English | 2015 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Aire encantado: Dos culturas, dos alas: una memoria” | Spanish | 2017 | Summary | Buy* |
| “The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist” | English | 2015 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music” | English | 2015 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Una Nina Un Tambor Un Sueno” | Spanish | 2016 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal” | English | 2014 | Summary | Buy* |
| “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist” | English | 2013 | Summary | Buy* |
| “The Wild Book” | English | 2012 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck” | English | 2011 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian” | English | 2010 | Summary | Buy* |
| “The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba” | English | 2010 | Summary | Buy* |
| “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba” | English | 2009 | Summary | Buy* |
| “The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom” | English Spanish | 2008 | Summary | Buy* |
| “The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano” | English | 2006 | Summary | Buy* |
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| Title | Author(s) | Pub Date | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
| “Looking for Alaska” | John Green | 2005 | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
| “An Abundance of Katherines” | John Green | 2006 | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
| “Let It Snow” | John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle | 2008 | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
| “Paper Towns” | John Green | 2008 | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
| “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” | John Green David Levithan | 2010 | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
| “The Fault in Our Stars” | John Green | 2012 | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
| “Turtles All the Way Down” | John Green | 2017 | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
| “The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet” | John Green | 2021 | Summary | Buy at Amazon |
ALL BOOKS BY
All Books By Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis’ is an award-winning writer whose works focus on recent history
| Title | Pub Year | Awards | Versions |
| “The Watsons Go to Birmingham” | 1995 | Coretta Scott King HonorNewbery HonorJane Addams Peace Award Honor | Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle |
| “Bud, Not Buddy” | 1999 | Newbery MedalCoretta Scott King AuthorYoung Reader’s ChoiceSCBWI Golden Kite | Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle |
| “Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money” | 2005 | Parent’s Choice Gold | Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle |
| “Bucking the Sarge” | 2004 | SCBWI Golden Kite | Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle |
| “Elijah of Buxton” | 2007 | Newbery HonorCoretta Scott KingScott O’Dell AwardCanadian Library Association Book of the Year | Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle |
| “The Mighty Miss Malone” | 2012 | | Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle |
| “The Madman of Piney Woods” | 2014 | | Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle |
| “The Journey of Little Charlie” | 2018 | National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Finalist (2018) | Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle |
Wikipedia: Christopher Paul Curtis
TeachingBooks: Christopher Paul Curtis
Website: https://www.ernestocisneros.com
Wikipedia: None
TeachingBooks: Ernesto Cisneros
Connection to California: Ernesto Cisneros was born in Santa Ana, California. He currently teaches for Santa Ana Unified School District
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