The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, Paperback - Margarita Engle

Reducere. A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet. Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Jua...

Reducere. Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's colon...

Publisher: University Press of FloridaAuthor(s): Juan A. MartinezIllustration(s): 53 color plates, 24 b/w photosNumber of pages: 104Publication dat...

Reducere. From Pura Belpré Award-winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a p...

Reducere. Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebr...

Reducere. Winner of the Pura Belpre Illustrator Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book In soaring words and stunning illustrations, Margarita Engle and Raf...

Reducere. When Tony's mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move--Tony's new worl...

Reducere. AwardsPura Belpre AwardDescriptionQuebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailor...

DescriptionIn this powerful companion to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Young People's Poet Laureate Margarita Engle recounts her teenage ...

Reducere. "Lasky shows not only the facts of Wheatley's life but also the pain of being an accomplished black woman in a segregated world." BOOKLIST "We ll c...

Reducere. Acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells a painful, poignant story of love in a time of hunger inspired by her own family's struggles during a dark p...

Reducere. - The first photographic field guide for the birds of Cuba- Includes all 378 recorded species- Updated status and distribution taxonomyCuba is home...

Una edición española Cuando visitamos a abuelo, lo ayudo a vender frutas, pregonando los nombres de cada una mientras caminamos: nuestros pasos rep...

Reducere. Fefa struggles with words. She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. Every time she tries, the letters...

Reducere. This is a very valuable bookDozens of poems are here that have never been translated into English before, and I think Berg and Maloney have done be...

DescriptionThe Spanish translation of this "beautifully written, thought provoking" (School Library Journal, starred review) novel in verse by Youn...

Reducere. It's the Festival of Lights in Nepal, and today is the day to honor dogs Brothers Alu and Bhalu wander the streets of Kathmandu, passing by twirlin...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. So we purr, cara cara, and we glide, taka taka, and we zoom, zoom, ZOOMTogether, a boy and his parents drive to the city of Havana, Cuba, in their ...

Publisher: Penguin USAAuthor(s): Margarita EngleNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 147 x 24Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

DescriptionThe Spanish translation of this "beautifully written, thought provoking" (School Library Journal, starred review) novel in verse by Youn...

DescriptionNow in Spanish, award-winning author Margarita Engle's lively middle grade novel in verse about a Cuban-American boy who visits his fami...

Reducere. Now available in SpanishIn this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpre Author Award and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed au...

Reducere. Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descen...

Reducere. The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slav...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A lyrical and unifying picture book that "will inspire young readers" and "magnificently showcases the immigrant experience" (Kirkus Reviews, starr...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of Cuba, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: History of ...

If you want to discover the remarkable history of Cuba then keep reading...The themes of the history of Cuba are as vast as they are inspiring. Cub...

Reducere. Here is the enlightening story of an esteemed and eloquent Mi'kmaq woman whose message of "gentle persuasion" has enriched the life of a nation. Ri...

The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby's in 1997. The author's detective work led him across America to a pris...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the remarkable history of Cuba then keep reading... The themes of the history of Cuba are as vast as they are in...

Reducere. The character Uncle Tom, fr om Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling novel, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin, "" is based on the life of Josiah Henson (1789-1882)...

Reducere. Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the at...

Contributor(s): Author: Juan Eduardo CirlotIntroduction by: Philip PullmanTranslator: Valerie MilesA classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan pol...

Reducere. From the leading photographer of Cuba, A Taste of Cuba is a stunning culinary and visual journey through Cuba that presents 75 authentic, never-bef...

Reducere. Growing up as one of fifteen children to black sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South, Samuel was raised to fight for what he believed in. From an ear...