By Margarita Engle
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, Ages 10 to 13
The story is about a girl named Tula who loves stories, but her family is coming out of slavery in Cuba, where girls are not allowed to be educated. Tula is conflicted with mixed feeling as she is to be married off to the highest bidder, and he mother will use the money to buy slaves. She finds herself in a banned book of a rebel poet, and she begins to see the injustice around her.The author's writing style is poetic. Each poems in the voice of a different character, telling what they have to say.
The book does not have very much art except for the cover. The cover looks of water and there is a hand with a black bird perched upon it.
This book was very confusing for me; therefore, I don't feel it would be a good book for some kids. It could be a book a teacher might use for an exceptional student with a high reading level.
Reviewed by E.S.
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