Part One: Freedom
A Brief Introduction to the Native People of Borikén
Courage
Daydreams
Hunter
Music from the Deep Sea and High Sky
The Magic of Cloth
This Peaceful Farm
Shaping Clay
Part Two: Survivors
A Brief Introduction to Conquest and Resistance
Conquest Means Cruelty
Defiance
Rebellion
Ferocity
Escape
Survival
Never Enough
Imaginary Wealth
Power
Vicious
Women Who Wish for Peace
Storming Northward
Choosing Sides
Reconquest
Homesick
Traded
Farm Dreams
Imagining Liberty
Mission Lands
Hypocrisy
The Orphan Project
Healer
Part Three: Independence For Some
Newly Independent Countries
Wondering about the Future
Rivers are Borders
Intruders
Lawbreakers
Ranch Lands
Part Four: Heroes
Fighting for Freedom
Transformed
Betrayed
Hired and Fired
Exiles
Songbird
Shouting!
Excluded
Language
A Leader
Range Wars
Changing the World with Words
So Close
Part Five: ¡Sí Se Puede!
Fighting for Justice and Inclusion
Dangerous Work
So Many Strange Forms of Discrimination
Rejected
Activism
Mis Palabras
The Triumph of Children!
Dreams of Equality on the Ball Field
Two Homelands
The Great Migration
Family Branches
Out of the Spotlight
The Great Depression
Words of Protest
A Famous Artist
Smoke
Airborne
Segregated
Medicine
Zoot Suit
Bus Ride
War Hero
The Courage to Dance
Bracero
Plans for the Future
Border Crossing
An Individual
Hollywood
Education Changes Everything
Pedro Pan
El Club Cubano
Transition
Exile or Immigrant?
¡Huelga!
Voting Rights
Anti-War
A Mathematical Genius
Recruited by a Factory
Three Languages
Boatlift
Teaching
Fragments
Opportunities
English-Also
Field Trip
A Scientific Hero
We are not Villains
Freedom Fighter
Part Six: For Our Lives
Current Times
Emergency Response
Volunteers
Jumping High
Learning from Each Other
Confused
Divided
Marching
Counting
Identity
Success
Dreams of Citizenship
Dreams of Beauty
Family Reunion
Esl
Dreams of Rain
The Horrors of History are Happening Right Now
Abandoned
Injustice
Never Dreamless
Enough
Acknowledgments
About the Author and Illustrator
Copyright
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Text copyright © 2019 by Margarita Engle
Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Beatriz Gutierrez
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Engle, Margarita, author. | Gutierrez, Beatriz (Gutierrez Hernandez), illustrator.
Title: Dreams from many rivers: a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems / Margarita Engle; illustrated by Beatriz Gutierrez.
Description: First edition. | New York: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2019] | Includes historical note.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019002542 | ISBN 9781627795319 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Hispanic Americans—History—Juvenile poetry. | Children’s poetry, American.
Classification: LCC PS3555.N4254 A6 2019 | DDC 811/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002542
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