# The Surrender Tree / El ábol de la rendición

**Author:** Margarita Engle
**Grade range:** Grades 7–12
**First published:** 2008
**Page count:** 385
**ISBN-13:** `9781429917445`
**ISBN-10:** `142991744X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-surrender-tree
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

The Surrender Tree / El árbol de la rendición is a lyrical, Newbery Honor-winning history in poems, and this bilingual edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book. It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her. Black, white, Cuban, Spanish—Rosa does her best for everyone. Yet who can heal a country so torn apart by war? Using the true story of the folk hero Rosa la Bayamesa, acclaimed poet Margarita Engle gives us another gripping, breathtaking account of a tumultuous period in Cuban history. A 2009 Newbery Honor Book 

## Where this book is assigned

### Pura Belpré Author Award

- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2009 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2009 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2009 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2009 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)
- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2009 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: Pura Belpré Author Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2009 Belpré Author Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Belpr%C3%A9_Award)

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