The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist

written by Margarita Engle and published by Harcourt, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist

About

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Tula fights for freedom and education for herself, and ultimatelyfor women, slaves and dissenters, in Margarita Engle’s poetic story of the nineteenth-century Cuban abolitionist and writer, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.

Awards Won

Title Year
Belpré Medal image Pura Belpré Award

91´«Ã½

The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
2014 - Honor(s)