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Author:

Engle, Margarita, author.

Title:

Lion Island : Cuba's warrior of words / Margarita Engle.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

163 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Chuffat Latour, Antonio,--1860---Childhood and youth--Juvenile fiction.
Chuffat Latour, Antonio,--1860---Childhood and youth--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Indentured servants--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Novels in verse.
Slavery--Juvenile fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.

ISBN:

1481461133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781481461139 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1481461125 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781481461122 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2015034288

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)

TGPD826 -- LeClaire Community Library (Le Claire)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

LZSX115 -- Storm Lake Middle School (Storm Lake)

TXPC862 -- Traer Public Library (Traer)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)