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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Margarita EngleAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2016-08-30Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781481461122ISBN-10:1481461125UPC:9781481461122Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), Places, HistoricalBook Topic:Caribbean & Latin AmericaSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCXCY0N159
In a haunting yet hopeful novel in verse, award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the story of Antonio Chuffat, a young man of African, Chinese, and Cuban descent who became a champion of civil rights.

Asia, Africa, Europe--Antonio Chuffat's ancestors clashed and blended on the beautiful island of Cuba. Yet for most Cubans in the nineteenth century, life is anything but beautiful. The country is fighting for freedom from Spain. Enslaved Africans and nearly-enslaved Chinese indentured servants are forced to work long, backbreaking hours in the fields.

So Antonio feels lucky to have found a good job as a messenger, where his richly blended cultural background is an asset. Through his work he meets Wing, a young Chinese fruit seller who barely escaped the anti-Asian riots in San Francisco, and his sister Fan, a talented singer. With injustice all around them, the three friends are determined that violence will not be the only way to gain liberty.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9781481461122ISBN-10:1481461125UPC:9781481461122Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), Places, HistoricalBook Topic:Caribbean & Latin AmericaSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCXCY0N159
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; and The Lightning Dreamer. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpr? 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.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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