Congratulations to Margarita Engle on Island Creatures (Atheneum, July 8, 2025), a young adult novel in verse about childhood friends, once lost and now reconnected, and their fight to protect endangered animals. From the publisher’s description:
Every day, Vida reads to the creatures at the wildlife rescue center and dreams of her childhood in Cuba,
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