There's also a time line at the end of the book that helps readers fill in the blanks about historical events. She tells readers in an author's note, "Travel teaches compassion." Fast-moving narrative poetry makes Enchanted Air a good choice for reluctant readers, and the author's unique perspective breathes life into a piece of history that may be unknown to many tweens and teens. She learns through traveling - to her mother's home country of Cuba, and to Mexico and Europe - that there is both beauty and suffering.
Eleven-year-old Margarita is kissed by an older boy, which she doesn't like. Her older friends brag about using weed, meth, and heroin get pregnant and have babies. As the Cuban Missile Crisis intensifies, Margarita and her American classmates prepare for bombings and "poisoned air." Additionally, Margarita hangs out with a wild group of girls and goes to a house where everyone else drinks and smokes. Margarita finds bullets while visiting Cuba after the revolution, and she later learns that one of her relatives has been sent to a forced-labor camp. Parents need to know that Newbery Honor author Margarita Engle's Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings is a memoir told in poetry that recalls Engle's life as a Cuban American girl whose family is devastated by the unraveling of Cuban and American relations in the 1960s. Her older friends brag about using weed, meth, and heroin.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. How can the two countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again? Winner Pura Belpré Author Award.Margarita hangs out with a wild group of girls and goes to a house where everyone else drinks and smokes. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Margarita’s worlds collide in the worst way possible. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. In this poetic memoir that’s nothing short of enchanting, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War.
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