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Gr 8-Up This engaging title documents 50-year-old Swedish suffragette and novelist Fredrika Bremer's three-month travels around Cuba in 1851. Based in the home of a wealthy sugar planter, Bremer journeys around the country with her host's teenaged slave Cecilia, who longs for her mother and home in the Congo. Elena, the planter's privileged 12-year-old daughter, begins to accompany them on their trips into the countryside. Both Elena and Cecilia a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Based on the letters and diaries of Fredrika Bremer, a mid-nineteenth-century Swedish feminist and traveler, this verse novel is set in Cuba. In 1851 Bremer spent three months in Cuba writing, sketching, and interviewing, visiting slaves, free blacks, and poor whites. Engle expands Bremer's mentions of Cecilia, a young slave, and invents the character of Elena, the slave-owner...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This verse novel set in Cuba is based on the writing of Fredrika Bremer, a nineteenth-century Swedish feminist. In 1851 Bremer visited...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Intertwined plots about Cuba, women’s rights, and slavery provide a perfect opening for discussing politics, history, and culture—and how they’re related. The unusual setting and the fact that charac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More