false 2871746 4 <div><div>It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not tree. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. <br><br><br><br>Black, white, Cuban, Spanish&#8212;Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? Acclaimed poet Margarita Engle has created another breathtaking portrait of Cuba.</div></div> 2897901 1 4 2008 The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom total:197|5:51|4:103|3:38|2:5|1:0| 197 791 332 92 4 1 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 18:20:53 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 18:23:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 18:52:28 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 18:52:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 15:21:59 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 15:40:17 -0700 2008 The Poet Slave of Cuba, captured my mind with its information and my heart with its poetry. In Surrender Tree, once again she creates a world that few of us know at all, much less know well: Cubans trying to escape slavery and set up a country independent from Spain from...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Feb 13 09:33:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 08 16:35:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 17:57:44 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 18:01:21 -0700 2008
A three part history of 19th century Cuba, this book is told in brief poems, mainly through the voice of Rosa, a young natural healer, and Lt. Death, her nemesis, the slaveholder.

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I wanted to like this more but feel confused about it. Everything that happens with Rosa and her various jungle hideouts is interesting and very often exciting, but a lo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 12:08:36 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 12:27:07 -0700 2009 curandera who uses jungle herbs and home remedies to patch up fighters a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 03 14:41:11 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 14:53:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Sep 22 06:16:21 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 06:34:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 20 22:50:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 22:56:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 16:32:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 11:42:38 -0700 2009
—Rosa, "The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom", P. 22

"I forget that I am grown now,
with daydreams of my own,

in this place where time
does not seem to exis...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 17:07:35 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 17:35:41 -0700 2009 so beautiful and lyrical, as one would expect from a novel in free verse, and it's crafted so carefully. I was especially taken by the imagery of the natural world—all the tropical birds and bats and f...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 19:34:03 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 16:00:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 14 18:46:56 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 14:49:53 -0700 2008
Using sparse, beautiful poems to chronicle a period in Cuba's struggle for independence, this story depicts the beauty of compassion and dignity as well as the ugliness of greed and hate. Margarita has created a story that will stay wit...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 03 16:43:03 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 21:10:17 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 23 15:16:54 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 16:03:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 10:02:42 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 16:31:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 16:00:03 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 06:27:34 -0800 2009 Newbery Honor but also Pura Belpre Author Award.
It is curious that the Goodreads book description does not include the Belpre information under the 'Literary Awards' line. Also, I wonder if this is the first time a Belpre winner has also been honored by the Newbery committee? A...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 19:32:50 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 19:34:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 23 17:35:57 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 07:37:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2871746