02866cam a2200541 i 4500 1168370272 TxAuBib 20240312120000.0 230721t20242023||||||||||||||||||||spa|u 2023034048 9798885795043 hardcover (OCoLC)1391119791 TxAuBib rda Engle, Margarita, author. Wings in the wild Spanish. Alas salvajes / Margarita Engle ; traducción de Alexis Romay. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. ©2023. 301 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Translation of: Wings in the wild. "Winged beings are meant to be free. And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn't meet their approval. Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of chained birds. Then a hurricane exposes the illegal art, and her parents are arrested. Soleida escapes to Central America alone, joining the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica while seeking asylum elsewhere. There she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy whose enigmatic music enchants birds and animals-and Soleida. Together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba. Soon they discover that love isn't about falling-it's about soaring together to new heights. But wings can be fragile, and Soleida and Dariel come from different worlds. They are fighting for a better future-and the chance to be together"-- Provided by publisher. Ages 12 UP Thorndike Press. Grades 7-9 Thorndike Press. 20240312. In Spanish. Environmentalism Juvenile fiction. Refugees Juvenile fiction. Artists Juvenile fiction. Political prisoners Juvenile fiction. Protest movements Juvenile fiction. Cuban Americans Juvenile fiction. Refugiados bidex Novela juvenil. Artistas bidex Novela juvenil. Presos políticos bidex Novela juvenil. Cubano-americanos bidex Novela juvenil. Cuba Juvenile fiction. Cuba Novela juvenil. Novels in verse. lcgft Spanish language materials. local Romance fiction. lcgft Romay, Alexis, translator. Thorndike Press, publisher. TXKPL