Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
By: Margarita Engle
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Product Description: Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba.

Pirate ship on sea
By: Margarita Engle

"Young Quebrado's name means 'the broken one,' a child 'of two shattered worlds.' The son of a Taíno Indian mother and a Spanish father, he is taken in 1510 from his village on the island that is present-day Cuba and enslaved on a pirate's ship, where

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Join these friends as they prepare for a party and practice counting in English and Spanish.

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