Margarita Engle is a poet and novelist whose work has been published in many countries. Her books include THE SURRENDER TREE, a Newbery Honor book and winner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Américas Award, and the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award; THE POET SLAVE OF CUBA winner of the Pura Belpré Award and the Américas Award; and HURRICANE DANCERS, winner of the Pura Belpré Award.

Books by Margarita Engle

Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

by Margarita Engle - Children's, Children's 8-12, Historical Fiction

Orangutanka: A Story in Poems

written by Margarita Engle with illustrations by Renee Kurilla - Children's, Picture, Poetry

Mountain Dog

Written by Margarita Engle with illustrations by Aleksey Ivanov and Olga Ivanov - Historical Fiction