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 Lion Island : Cuba's warrior of words
 Author: Engle, Margarita

 Publisher:  Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2016)

 Classification: Fiction
 Physical Description: 163 p.,  21 cm.

 BTSB No: 311474 ISBN: 9781481461122
 Ages: 10-14 Grades: 5-9

 Subjects:
 Chuffat Latour, Antonio, -- 1860- -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction
 Novels in verse
 Racially mixed people -- Fiction
 Indentured servants -- Fiction
 Slavery -- Fiction
 Chinese -- Cuba -- Fiction
 Cuba -- History -- 1810-1899 -- Fiction

Price: $6.50

Summary:
A biographical novel about Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese-African-Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.

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Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: MG
   Reading Level: 6.80
   Points: 2.0   Quiz: 184607

Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (05/15/16)
   School Library Journal (02/01/17)
   Booklist (07/01/16)
 The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (09/16)
 The Hornbook (00/07/16)

Full Text Reviews:

School Library Journal - 06/01/2016 - Copyright 2016 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

Bulletin for the Center... - 09/01/2016 - Copyright 2016 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Booklist - 07/01/2016 - Copyright 2016 Booklist.

School Library Journal - 02/01/2017 - Copyright 2017 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

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