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Margarita Engle is a Cuban American writer. She became the first Latino awarded a Newbery Honor in 2009 for ''The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present )〕 ==Biography== Engle was born in Los Angeles and became a botanist and professor at California State Polytechnic University.〔(''In other words: literature by Latinas of the United States'' ), Roberta Fernández〕 Her young adult novels in verse include: * ''The Surrender Tree'', recipient of the first Newbery Honor awarded to a Latino, as well as the Pura Belpré Medal, Américas Award, and Jane Addams Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Surrender Tree )〕 * ''The Poet Slave of Cuba'' received the Pura Belpré Medal, Américas Award, and an International Reading Association Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Poet Slave of Cuba )〕 * ''Tropical Secrets'' received the Sydney Taylor Award〔() 〕 and Paterson Prize. * ''The Firefly Letters'' is a Pura Belpré Honor Book, and a finalist for the Jane Addams Award and California Book Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Firefly Letters )〕 * ''Hurricane Dancers'' is a Pura Belpré Honor Book and ALA Best Books for Young Adults nominee 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margarita Engle - Books About Cuba )〕 * ''The Wild Book'' is a novel in verse inspired by stories told by Margarita's grandmother about her childhood. * ''The Lightning Dreamer'' is a novel in verse of the daring abolitionist Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. Engle is also the author of picture books ''Summer Birds'', ''When You Wander'', and middle grade novel in verse ''Mountain Dog''. She lives in central California, where she enjoys helping her husband with his volunteer work for wilderness search and rescue dog training programs. Her picture book ''When You Wander'', illustrated by Mary Morgan, is about search-and-rescue dogs. Her middle-grade novel ''Mountain Dog'' was released in August 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margarita Engle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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