Margarita Engle (she/her) is the Cuban American author of many books, including the verse novels Your Heart, My Sky; Rima's Rebellion; Newbery Honor winner The Surrender Tree; and Forest World. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, the latter of which received the Pura Belpre Award and a Walter Dean Myers Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among other honors. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.
“In her tender, funny, far-reaching new novel in verse, Margarita
Engle...expands our notion of who gets to do the rescuing in
children’s animal stories…Via elegantly efficient narrative poetry,
Engle weaves themes of longing and belonging, of communication and
the sorts of attachment that are too deep ever to be communicated
with words.” —New York Times
"Employing immersive free verse that conveys themes of compassion,
friendship, justice, and vulnerability, Engle (Rima’s Rebellion)
captures how inexplicable Oriol’s grief feels, encasing it in a
powerful, charitable, and brave young voice." —Publishers Weekly,
starred review
"Replete with lovely, nearly magical imagery...Brilliant, joyful,
and deeply moving." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“This is a book that readers won’t want to put down until the last
page.” —School Library Journal
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