The Firefly Letters
A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 151 pages ; 21 cm
Draws on little-known Cuban history to tell a stirring story in poetry. Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, the story focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives.
Subjects:
Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865 -- Diaries.
Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865 -- Correspondence.
Novels in verse.
Women -- Suffrage -- Cuba -- Juvenile poetry.
Women -- Suffrage -- Cuba -- Teen fiction.
Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865 -- Diaries.
Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865 -- Correspondence.
Novels in verse.
Women -- Suffrage -- Cuba -- Juvenile poetry.
Women -- Suffrage -- Cuba -- Teen fiction.
Target Audience: Young Adult.
ISBN:
9780805090826
Includes bibliographical references.
Accelerated Reader 6.2.
Reading Counts! 11.0.
Pura Belpré Children's Author Honor, 2011.
A Junior Library Guild selection
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011
Notable Book for a Global Society, 2011
Am{acute}ericas Award Honorable Mention, 2011
Accelerated Reader 6.2.
Reading Counts! 11.0.
Pura Belpré Children's Author Honor, 2011.
A Junior Library Guild selection
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011
Notable Book for a Global Society, 2011
Am{acute}ericas Award Honorable Mention, 2011