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Hurricane dancers : the first Caribbean pirate shipwreck
Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village. Poems tell his story.
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Forest world
Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
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Silenced? Fear and Courage in an Era of Book Bans
Reminding us that \"freedom is a muscle,\" a writer of children's and young adult literature whose own Drum Dream Girl has been banned urges us to set aside fear and speak, write, and read about liberty and equality. riters in the United States are currently suffering through a barrage of hostile attacks against our books. Onlookers who shrug and claim the bans will help sell books fail to understand the landscape of literature for young readers. At this very moment, creative individuals languish in prison at the behest of various nation-states and their repressive ideologies. Because we ask and we wonder while authoritarians propagandize, pretending to know what's best for everyone else.
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Lion Island : Cuba's warrior of words
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
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Soaring earth : a companion memoir to Enchanted air
\"In this follow-up to her award-winning memoir Enchanted Air, Margarita Engle details her teenage years in Los Angeles against the turbulent backdrop of the Vietnam War. In vulnerable verse, she addresses the notions of peace, civil rights, freedom of expression, and environmental protection that are once again under threat. Despite these circumstances, young Margarita was able to find solace and empowerment through her education\"-- Provided by publisher.
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When you wander : a search-and-rescue dog story
A dog that has just graduated from \"sniffing school\" advises readers what to do if they become lost in the woods, and assures them that his smart nose will lead him to where they are. Includes facts about dogs' noses.
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