Title Lion Island : Cuba's warrior of words / Margarita Engle.

Publication Info.

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	J ENGLE	Check Shelf
New Britain, Main Library - Young Adult	YA FIC ENGLE, M	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	163 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Subject	Chuffat Latour, Antonio, 1860- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction.
	Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction.
	Indentured servants -- Juvenile fiction.
	Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.
	Novels in verse -- Juvenile fiction.
	Novels in verse.
	Chuffat Latour, Antonio, 1860- -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction.
	Multiracial people -- Fiction.
	Indentured servants -- Fiction.
	Slavery -- Fiction.
	Chinese -- Cuba -- Fiction.
	Cuba -- History -- 1810-1899 -- Fiction.
ISBN	9781481461122 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
	1481461125 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
	9781481461139 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	1481461133 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
	9781481461146 (ebook)

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