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Engle, Magarita

Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words

163 pp. | Atheneum | August, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-6112-2 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-6114-6
(2) YA Engle (The Poet Slave of Cuba and companions) tells of nineteenth-century Cuba's Chinese indentured workers through Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese African Cuban boy who wants desperately to help the laborers seeking freedom from the indenture system; through his job as a messenger, he learns firsthand that words have power. Engle again weaves fiction and fact to create a lyrical tale. Reading list. Bib.
Reviewer: Celia C. Perez | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2016

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