The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
by Margarita Engle
Verse novel · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 720L · 182 pages · 2013
Why we'd hand it over
A lyrical, unflinching introduction to a historical hero most American curricula omit—the verse form makes Plácido's own words sing without softening the stakes of abolition or his execution.