Book of the Day #4: “Wild Dreamers”

Title: “Wild Dreamers”

Author: Margarita Engle

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub Date: April 23, 2024

Summary: “How do we leave our mark when it feels like the world has no space for us? This is a tale of love, hope, and animal conservation.”

Review: “Emotions run deep and true in the concrete poems and free verse, which offer complex relationships that are familial, cultural, romantic, and environmental, appropriately blurring the lines between them for readers already invested in effecting heartfelt change.” — The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Starred Review

Awards: National Book Award Long List, Junior Library Guild Selection

Notes: Conservation. Diversity. Ages 12-18. Award-winning author of Drum Dream Girl and The Poet Slave of Cuba, The Surrender Tree, and many others.

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