Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words Cover:Paperback Hardcover / Paperback -Wima Rudolph

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Newbery Honor Book

Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words Cover:Paperback Hardcover / Paperback -Wima RudolphIn a haunting yet hopeful novel in verse, award winning author Margarita Engle tells the story of Antonio Chuffat, a young man of African, Chinese, and Cuban descent who became a champion of civil rights. Asia, Africa, EuropeAntonio Chuffats ancestors clashed and blended on the beautiful island of Cuba. Yet for most Cubans in the nineteenth century, life is anything but beautiful. The country is fighting for freedom from Spain. Enslaved Africans and