Title The lightning dreamer : Cuba's greatest abolitionist / Margarita Engle.

Publication Info.	Boston ; New York : Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013]
	©2013

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Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	J ENGLE	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Young Adult	YA F ENGLE	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Teen Department	TEEN B GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA, GERTRUDIS	Check Shelf
Middletown, Russell Library - Young Adult Fiction	YA-ENG	Check Shelf
Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Young Adult	YB GOMEZ DE AVELLANEDA c.2	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department	JUV. 818 E582L	Check Shelf

Description	182 pages ; 21 cm
Note	"Harcourt is an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company"--Title page verso.
	"Jacket illustration ... by Edel Rodriguez ; Jacket design by Elizabeth Tardiff"--Jacket flap.
Summary	In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 181).
Contents	Historical background -- Suns and rays, 1827 -- The orphan theater, 1827 -- The marriage market, 1828 -- See me as I am, 1829 -- The hotel of Peace, 1836 -- Historical note -- The writing of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.
Awards	Pura Belpré Honor book, 2014
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.7 2.0 158122.
Subject	Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis, 1814-1873 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis, 1814-1873 -- Fiction.
	Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis, 1814-1873. (OCoLC)fst00016089
	G?omez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, Gertrudis, 1814-1873 -- Fiction.
	Children's poetry.
	Novels in verse.
	Historical fiction.
	Feminists -- Juvenile poetry.
	Abolitionists -- Juvenile poetry.
	Slavery -- Cuba -- Juvenile poetry.
	Arranged marriage -- Juvenile poetry.
	Courage -- Juvenile poetry.
	Spanish American fiction -- Women authors.
	Cuba -- History -- 1810-1899 -- Juvenile poetry.
	Novels in verse.
	Authors -- Fiction.
	Feminists -- Fiction.
	Abolitionists -- Fiction.
	Cuba -- History -- 1810-1899 -- Fiction.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Poetry -- General.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- People & Places -- Caribbean & Latin America.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Literary.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Women.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Girls & Women.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- History -- Central & South America.
	Abolitionists. (OCoLC)fst00794478
	Arranged marriage. (OCoLC)fst00815057
	Children's poetry. (OCoLC)fst00856335
	Courage. (OCoLC)fst00881609
	Feminists. (OCoLC)fst00922831
	Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst00957973
	Novels in verse. (OCoLC)fst01039786
	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	Spanish American fiction -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst01128193
	Cuba. (OCoLC)fst01205805
	Abolitionists -- Fiction.
	Historical fiction.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- History -- Central & South America.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- People & Places -- Caribbean & Latin America.
	Authors -- Fiction.
	Feminists -- Fiction.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Girls & Women.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Literary.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Poetry -- General.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Women.
	Cuba -- History -- Fiction.
Chronological Term	1810-1899
Genre/Form	Children's poetry -- 2013.
	Pura Belpré Award: Honor Book (Author) -- 2014.
	Biographical fiction -- Young adult.
	Novels in verse -- Young adult.
	Biographical fiction.
	Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Novels in verse. (OCoLC)fst01921724
	Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
	Historical fiction.
	Biographical fiction.
	Novels in verse.
	Historical fiction.
	Biographical fiction -- 2013.
	Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2103.
	Historical fiction.
	Biographical fiction.
Added Author	Rodriguez, Edel, illustrator.
	Tardiff, Elizabeth, jacket designer.
	Harcourt (Firm), publisher.
	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Other Form:	Online version: Engle, Margarita. Lightning dreamer. Boston : Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 9780547807478 (OCoLC)847623270
ISBN	9780547807430 (hardback)
	0547807430 (hardback)
	9780547807478 (ebook)

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