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Published
2021
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Subgenre
Historical
ISBN
9781534464964
Section
Young Adult

Your Heart, My Sky

Margarita Engle

In Cuba's "special period" of hunger in the 1990s, Liana and Amado find love and resistance in a time of scarcity.

  • YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2022
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Themes

First lovePoverty & classActivism & justice

Mood

Feels emotional, hopeful.

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