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2018 Fall Gala
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Saturday, October 27, 2018
Keynote Speaker:
Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the national Young People's Poet Laureate, for 2017 - 2019 and the first Latino to receive that honor. The Young People’s Poet Laureate aims to raise awareness that young people have a natural receptivity to poetry and are its most appreciative audience, especially when poems are written specifically for them.
Margarita is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, including The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner, and The Lightning Dreamer, a PEN USA Award winner. Her verse memoir, Enchanted Air, received the Pura Belpré Award, Golden Kite Award, Walter Dean Myers Honor, and Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, among others. Drum Dream Girl received the Charlotte Zolotow Award for best picture book text.
Venue: Luminarias Restaurant
3500 W. Ramona Blvd
Monterey Park, CA 91754
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BOOKS BY MARGARITA ENGLE:
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Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)
*Starred Review: School Library Journal |
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The Flying Girl: How Aida de Acosta Learned to Soar
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2018)
*Starred Review: School Library Journal |
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Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
(Peachtree Publishers, 2017)
*Starred Review: Kirkus
*Starred Review: School Library Journal |
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
(HMH Books for Young Readers, 2015)
*Starred Review: Kirkus
*Starred Review: School Library Journal
*Pura Belpre Award, 2016
*ALA Notable Children's Book 2016
More awards and honors may be found on the author's website. |
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All the Way to Havana
(Henry Holt and Co., 2017)
*Starred Review: Booklist
*Starred Review: Kirkus
*Starred Review: Publishers' Weekly
*Starred Review: School Library Journal |
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Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics
(Henry Holt and Co., 2017)
*Starred Review: School Library Journal |
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Morning Star Horse
(Horizon Bound Books., 2017)
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Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words
(Atheneum Books of Young Readers, 2016)
*Starred Review: School Library Journal
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
(Atheneum Books of Young Readers, 2015)
*Starred Review: Booklist
*Starred Review: Kirkus
*Starred Review:
School Library Journal
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The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist
(Two Lions, 2015)
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Orangutanka: A Story in Poems
(Henry Holt and Co., 2015)
*Starred Review: School Library Journal
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Silver People:Voices from the Panama Canal
(HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014)
*Starred Review: Booklist
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The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
(HMH Books for Young Readers, 2013)
*Starred Review: Booklist
*Pura Belpre Honor Book, 2014
*ALSC Notable Book, 2013
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More awards and honors may be found on the author's website.
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