![]() ![]() ![]() Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl Dancing Hands and The Flying Girl. 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. ![]() 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. How can the two countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again? When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Margarita’s worlds collide in the worst way possible. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not. ![]() But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Engle Margarita from. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, acclaimed author Margarita Engle tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. ![]()
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