Wings in the Wild

Wings in the Wild by Margarita Engle

Available in Spanish!

Romance/Realistic Fiction

Text from the back cover:

Winged beings are meant to be free.  And so are artists, but the Cuban government has criminalized any art that doesn't meet their approval.  Soleida and her parents protest this injustice with their secret sculpture garden of chained birds.  Then a hurricane exposes the illegal art, and her parents are arrested.  Soleida escapes to Central America, joining the thousands of Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica while seeking asylum elsewhere.  There she meets Dariel, a boy whose music enchants animals -- and Soleida.  Together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned Cuban artists.  Soon they discover 

that love isn't about falling -- it's about soaring together to new heights.

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