Book Awards & Distinctions
for Margarita Engle

2 Lifetime Achievement Awards 172 Total Book Awards

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music is on 8 State Lists

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir is on 11 State Lists

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal is on 2 State Lists

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist is on 1 State List

All the Way to Havana
All the Way to Havana is on 2 State Lists

Bravo!: Poems about Amazing Hispanics
Bravo!: Poems about Amazing Hispanics is on 5 State Lists

Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air
Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air is on 1 State List

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom is on 6 State Lists

Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln
Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln is on 7 State Lists

Forest World

Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots

The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba is on 2 State Lists

Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words

Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote is on 1 State List

The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano is on 3 State Lists

Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

A Song of Frutas
A Song of Frutas is on 3 State Lists

With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darí­o, Poetry Hero

Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger
Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger is on 1 State List

Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems

Rima's Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny

The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist

The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar
The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar is on 1 State List

La selva

Mountain Dog
Mountain Dog is on 18 State Lists

Singing with Elephants
Singing with Elephants is on 7 State Lists

Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian is on 1 State List

Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

The Wild Book

¡Bravo!: Poemas Sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios
¡Bravo!: Poemas Sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios is on 1 State List

Isla de leones: El guerrero Cubano de las palabras

La joven aviadora: Aída de Acosta sube muy alto
La joven aviadora: Aída de Acosta sube muy alto is on 1 State List

Light for All
Light for All is on 2 State Lists

Manos que bailan: Cómo Teresa Carreño tocó el piano para el presidente Lincoln
Manos que bailan: Cómo Teresa Carreño tocó el piano para el presidente Lincoln is on 1 State List

Miguel y su valiente caballero: el joven Cervantes sueña a don Quijote
Miguel y su valiente caballero: el joven Cervantes sueña a don Quijote is on 1 State List

Orangutanka: A Story in Poems

The Sculptors of Light: Poems about Cuban Women Artists

Tu corazón, mi cielo: El amor en los tiempos del hambre

Un pregón de frutasUn pregón de frutas
Un pregón de frutasUn pregón de frutas is on 1 State List

Water Day

Wings in the Wild