Criaturas Isleñas (Island Creatures)

Cuban childhood friends Vida and Adâan rediscover each other in Florida where they work together to protect endangered animals while navigating their complicated homelives.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Margarita Engle, Margarita Engle
• Assisted by: Emily Carrero Mustelier (Translation), Emily Carrero Mustelier (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: Spanish
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 08.07.2025
• EAN: 9781665960847
• ISBN: 978-1-6659-6084-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 277 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