Sueños Salvajes (Wild Dreamers)

Told in alternating voices, this novel in verse follows teens Ana and Leandro, who are determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts by deciding to fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.

About the author

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; The Lightning Dreamer; and Wild Dreamers, a Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor book. 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. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.Alexis Romay is the author of two novels and two books of poetry. His essays and opinion pieces have been published by NBC News, World Literature Today, Museum of Modern Art, El Nuevo Herald, Latino Rebels, Hypermedia Magazine, Replicante, Letras Libres, and other outlets. He has written lyrics for Paquito D'Rivera and translated over forty picture books, as well as novels by Ana Veciana-Suarez, Margarita Engle, Miguel Correa Mujica, Meg Medina, Stuart Gibbs, and Adrianna Cuevas. He lives in New Jersey with his family.

Product details

• Authors: Margarita Engle, Margarita Engle
• Assisted by: Alexis Romay (Translation), Inma Serrano (Translation), Alexis Romay (Translation), Inma Serrano (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: Spanish
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 08.07.2025
• EAN: 9781665950664
• ISBN: 978-1-6659-5066-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Novels in Verse, People & places (Children's / Teenage), General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), United States of America, USA, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Poetry (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science & Nature / Environment, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Hispanic & Latino, Relating to Latin / Hispanic US American people