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Singing with elephants / Margarita Engle.
Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
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- ISBN: 9780593206690
- Physical Description: 224 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Skagit Library | ENG | 1014736 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Margarita Engle (she/her) is the Cuban American author of many books, including the verse novels Your Heart, My Sky; Rimaâs Rebellion; Newbery Honor winner The Surrender Tree; and Forest World. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, the latter of which received the Pura Belpré Award and a Walter Dean Myers Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among other honors. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.