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Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger

Margarita Engle

Ages: 14+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Atheneum/Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-1-5344-6496-4

Keywords: Cuba, Famine, Romance

A stray dog unites teens Liana and Amado, who evade oppressive “voluntary” labor. Set in a period of Cuban history when people on the island struggled with starvation. In verse.