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Gr 5–8—In this middle grade novel in verse, Engle transports readers to the world of 1870s Cuba. Antonio Chuffat is of African and Chinese descent and a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this last chapter in her series of verse novels about the struggle "against forced labor in nineteenth-century Cuba" (The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, rev. 7/06, and companions), Engle tells the story of Cuba's Chinese indentured workers through the eyes of Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese African Cuban boy. Antonio wants desperately to help the laborers who seek freedom from the indenture system, with its endlessly renewing eight-year contracts, but...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Engle (<i>The Poet Slave of Cuba</i> and companions) tells of nineteenth-century Cuba's Chinese indentured workers through Antonio Chuff...Log In or Sign Up to Read More