Alas Salvajes (Wings in the Wild)

"Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y tambiâen lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobaciâon. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardâin secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracâan derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados ... Soleida huye sola a Centroamâerica y se une a miles de refugiados cubanos varados en Costa Rica mientras buscan asilo en cualquier otro sitio. Ahâi, conoce a Dariel, un muchacho cubanoamericano cuya mâusica enigmâatica hechiza a las aves, a los animales ... y a Soleida. Juntos trabajan para proteger el medioambiente y atraer la atenciâon del mundo hacia los artistas presos en Cuba. Pronto descubren que el amor no consta de caer rendido, sino de volar juntos hacia nuevas alturas. Pero las alas pueden ser frâagiles, y Soleida y Dariel vienen de mundos diferentes. ÅAcaso ese futuro mejor por el que luchan incluirâa la posibilidad de que estâen juntos"--

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), Alexis Romay (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: Spanish
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2023
• EAN: 9781665927710
• ISBN: 978-1-6659-2771-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Novels in Verse, Caribbean islands, People & places (Children's / Teenage), General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, 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 / Places / Caribbean & Latin America