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A review by bibliobrandie
Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems by Margarita Engle
4.0
Another beautiful historical novel in verse by Engle. This one covers 600+ years and tells the story of immigration and Latinx history in North America. She starts in Puerto Rico, then called Boriken, in 1491 and explains:
"Most US history books being with colonization of the thirteen colonies by English invaders who conquered numerous Indigenous nations. However, the part of modern US territory that was colonized the earliest is Puerto Rico."
She then moves through time up to present day with a 6th grade Dreamer fearful of DACA ending.
It's amazing how much history she tells in this short book.
I used it together with Caminar and The Only Road.
"Most US history books being with colonization of the thirteen colonies by English invaders who conquered numerous Indigenous nations. However, the part of modern US territory that was colonized the earliest is Puerto Rico."
She then moves through time up to present day with a 6th grade Dreamer fearful of DACA ending.
It's amazing how much history she tells in this short book.
I used it together with Caminar and The Only Road.