Pub Date: July 8, 2025
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2024018379
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 13 to 17
Physical Info: 0.94" H x 8.43" L x 5.75" W ( 0.75 lbs) 272 pages
BISAC Categories:
Young Adult Fiction | Novels in Verse | Science and Nature | Environment | Hispanic and Latino
Description: Cuban childhood friends Vida and Adâan rediscover each other in Florida where they work together to protect endangered animals while navigating their complicated home lives. Told in verse format.
Brief description: Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima's Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; The Lightning Dreamer; and Wild Dreamers, a Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor book. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.
Review Quotes: "Engle's verse narrative boasts rich language steeped in nature's spiritual beauty and the reciprocal connection between humans and animals. A sweet slow-burner with tight, evocative poems, this tale of adolescent love glows."--Kirkus Reviews