The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist
written by Margarita Engle and published by Harcourt, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Tula fights for freedom and education for herself, and ultimatelyfor women, slaves and dissenters, in Margarita Engle’s poetic story of the nineteenth-century Cuban abolitionist and writer, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.
Awards Won
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Pura Belpré Award
¾«¶«´«Ã½The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
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2014 - Honor(s) |
