Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

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: Margarita Engle
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 03/15/2011
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780805092400

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 143562 / Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

Award: Pura Belpre Award - Honor Book
Award: Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2011 pg. 116
School Library Journal 03/01/2011 pg. 160
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2011
Booklist 01/01/2011 pg. 88
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2011
Publishers Weekly 01/24/2011
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2011 - Recommended - Better Than Most

About the Author

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.

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