The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

by Margarita Engle

Book Overview

It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. 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. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish--Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? Acclaimed poet Margarita Engle has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805086749
• ISBN13: 9780805086744
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary