Destiny Finds Her Way

How a Rescued Baby Sloth Learned to Be Wild

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$16.99 US
On sale Feb 07, 2023 | 32 Pages | 9781426372346

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  • SELECTION | 2024
    Illinois State Library Monarch Award
  • AWARD | 2024
    Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
  • NOMINEE | 2023
    Cook Prize
Margarita Engle (she/her) is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and Forest World. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl; Dancing Hands; and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.  View titles by Margarita Engle
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Awards

  • SELECTION | 2024
    Illinois State Library Monarch Award
  • AWARD | 2024
    Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
  • NOMINEE | 2023
    Cook Prize

Author

Margarita Engle (she/her) is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and Forest World. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl; Dancing Hands; and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.  View titles by Margarita Engle

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