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The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba''s Struggle For Freedom / El árbol de la rendición: poemas de la lucha de cuba por su libertad is a lyrical, Newbery Honor-winning history in poems, and this bilingual edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book.

La Guerra Chiquita?
Cómo puede haber una guerra chiquita?
Acaso algunas muertes
son más pequeñas que otras,
dejan madres
que lloran
un poco menos?

It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her.

Black, white, Cuban, SpanishRosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war?

Using the true story of the folk hero Rosa la Bayamesa, acclaimed poet Margarita

The Surrender Tree El arbol de la rendicion

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 16 March 2010
      ISBN-13 9780312608712
      978-0312608712
      ISBN-10 0312608713
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba''s Struggle For Freedom / El árbol de la rendición: poemas de la lucha de cuba por su libertad is a lyrical, Newbery Honor-winning history in poems, and this bilingual edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book.

      La Guerra Chiquita?
      Cómo puede haber una guerra chiquita?
      Acaso algunas muertes
      son más pequeñas que otras,
      dejan madres
      que lloran
      un poco menos?

      It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her.

      Black, white, Cuban, SpanishRosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war?

      Using the true story of the folk hero Rosa la Bayamesa, acclaimed poet Margarita

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