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by Margarita Engle (Author)
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado--half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother's Taíno Indian language and his father's Spanish.
But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among people who treat him well. And it is he who must decide the fate of his former captors. Latino interest.Author Biography
Margarita Engle is a Cuban American poet, novelist, and journalist whose work has been published in many countries. She is the author of young adult nonfiction books and novels in verse including The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor Book, The Poet Slave of Cuba, The Firefly Letters, and Tropical Secrets. She lives in northern California.
Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN
Publication Date: March 15, 2011
Award: Pura Belpre Award (2012)
Award: Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature (2012)
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
Interest Level: Upper Middle Grades, 6 and up
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 1
