Wings in the Wild (Reprint) by Margarita Engle

Wings in the Wild (Reprint)

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Wings in the Wild (Reprint)

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Wings in the Wild (Reprint)

by Margarita Engle

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This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the "inspiring and hopeful" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.

Winged beings are meant to be free. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn't meet their approval. Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of chained birds. Then a hurricane exposes the illegal art, and her parents are arrested.

Soleida escapes to Central America alone, joining the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica while seeking asylum elsewhere. There she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy whose enigmatic music enchants birds and animals--and Soleida.

Together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba. Soon they discover that love isn't about falling--it's about soaring together to new heights. But wings can be fragile, and Soleida and Dariel come from different worlds. They are fighting for a better future--and the chance to be together.
Book Details
Publisher:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
9781665926379
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
240
Authors:
Margarita Engle
Published Date:
2024-04-23
Language:
English
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About Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle writes for children and young adults, largely in verse. She trained first as a scientist, studying agronomy and botany and earning degrees from California State Polytechnic University and Iowa State University, before turning to writing about Cuba, the country her mother came from. The Surrender Tree received a Newbery Honor in 2009, and she has won three Pura Belpré Author Awards. She served as the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019, and won the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2019.

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