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It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for self-reliance and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with inadequate food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she changes concealed caves into private hospitals for many who know how to find her. African american, white, Cuban, Spanish?Rosa does indeed her best for everybody. Yet who is able to recover a country so torn apart by conflict? Acclaimed poet Margarita Engle has created another breathtaking family portrait of Cuba.The Surrender Tree is a 2009 Newbery Honor Publication, the winner of this year's 2009 Pura Belpre Medal for Narrative and this year's 2009 Bank Road - Claudia Lewis Award, and a 2009 Standard bank Road - Best Children's Publication of the entire year.
