Many historical readers will appreciate it for Margarita Engle's Historical Notes and Chronology of events at the end of the book.5 StarsThis book was amazing and I really loved this book for so many reasons. How much is freedom worth? Then the story jumps a few years when Rosa is grown, and she marries I read along with this story while listening to the CD. Instead, she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. The Surrender Tree The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle. They both are constantly on the move and hiding. Still, a great little book. The Surrender Tree takes you through the fight in verse stated by the characters living through it. It was set during the nineteenth century and is a recollection of both Cubans and Spanish fighting over control of the island. He even gets injured to learn how she works, but it doesn’t help. They both are constantly on the move and hiding. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? The Surrender Tree is informed by Engle’s own Cuban American background and stories she learned from her grandparents who survived internment in a Cuban reconcentration camp. The various points of view made the story inter Newberry Honor 2009Pura Belpre Award 2009This story is the story of Cuba’s struggle for freedom during three wars in 1850-1900. Towards the end of the book, the fictional character, Silvia is introduced who has lost her whole family due to disease and the war.
Her healing efforts were not selective as she worked endlessly to help. Including one of the world's first concentration camps.This Newbery Honor Book, and winner of the Pura Belpre Medal by Margarita Engle is the account of Cuba's war for independence.
This book gives a good look into how things were during war times in Cuba. These freedom fighters and these nurses have a price on their head. Jose is her husband and they work together to help those in need. Rosa, the healer who is hunted by Lieutenant Death, and her husband Jose along with their converted friend, secretly heal the slaves that flee and hide from the soldiers of Spain. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. I had no idea that America had requested to buy the island of Cuba, and had eventually only set the island free after occupation if they were allowed to set up the naval base of Guantanamo.THE SURRENDER TREE is a book that's completely outside of my normal wheel house. / 2008.Genre: Young Adult Historical Nonfiction.Format: Book (in verse) - print. I sometimes forget about my family’s great history. The book also provides a great example of a selfless heroine - Rosa!This is an interesting historical fiction book about Cuba.