![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Visit her at Newbery Honor-winner Margarita Engle tells her most personal story to date, a glowing portrait in verse of her Cuban grandmother as a young girl struggling with dyslexia. AGES: 10 to 14 AUTHOR: Margarita Engle is the award-winning author of the Newbery Honor book 'The Surrender Tree', as well as 'The Poet Slave of Cuba', 'Tropical Secrets', 'The Firefly Letters' and 'Hurricane Dancers'. ![]() In this vibrant novel in verse, award-winning poet Margarita Engle paints a glowing portrait of her grandmother as a young girl. And when her family is threatened, it is what Fefa has learned from her wild book that saves them. Soon Fefa starts to sprinkle words across the pages of her wild book. She lets her words sprout like seedlings, shaky at first, then growing stronger and surer with each new day. She gives Fefa a blank book filled with clean white pages. She gives Fefa a blank book filled with clean white pages. How will she ever understand them? But her mother has an idea. Every time she tries, the letters jumble and spill off the page, leaping and hopping away like bullfrogs. ![]() She has word blindness, or dyslexia, and the doctor says she will never read or write. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. ![]()
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