Book
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
by Margarita Engle
- Published
- 2008
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Words
- 12053
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.4
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–14
A verse novel follows healer Rosa la Bayamesa and others through Cuba’s nineteenth-century wars for independence, portraying hidden hospitals, slavery, survival, and the human cost of prolonged conflict.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780805086744
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