Wild Dreamers
by Margarita Engle
Verse novel · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 620L · 240 pages · 2025
Why we'd hand it over
Engle's verse portraits of real and imagined young dreamers from the Caribbean feel intimate and expansive at once; the language is genuinely poetic without being precious, and kids encounter radiant figures (often women and girls) solving problems through creativity.