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Lion Island : Cuba's warrior of words /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Engle, Margarita (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Chuffat Latour, Antonio, > 1860- > Childhood and youth > Juvenile fiction.
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.
JUVENILE FICTION > Historical > Other.
JUVENILE FICTION > People & Places > Caribbean & Latin America.
JUVENILE FICTION > Stories in Verse.
Historical fiction.
Description
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.
Physical Description:163 pages ; 22 cm
Audience:Ages 10 up.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781481461122
1481461125
9781481461139
1481461133