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Well-behaved women seldom make history

Rima's Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny by Margarita Engle

January 19, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport Book I own Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny is an interesting book. First, it is prose poetry and while that is usually a good thing for me, I am not sure this was the best format for the subject. Second, it is confusing what age(s) it is aimed for. The tone of the book is for a middle-grade reader (at least aged 10 and up), but the subject matter is more mature. If this was Margarita Engle’s first novel, that bump […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: 1909-1933 History, Caribbean & Latin America, CBR15Passport, Cuba, family, feminists, Girls & Women, las Mambises, Margarita Engle, natural children, Novels in Verse, suffragists

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction, Health, History, Poetry, Religion, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: 1909-1933 History, Caribbean & Latin America, CBR15Passport, Cuba, family, feminists, Girls & Women, las Mambises, Margarita Engle, natural children, Novels in Verse, suffragists ·
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