The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
by Engle, Margarita
Americas Award for Children's LiteratureVOYA Award/HonorPura Belpré Award/Honor BookALA Notable/Best BooksDiaries/Journals/Letters/BlogsWomenNovels in VerseJunior Library Guild Selection
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AR Book Level
6.2
AR Points
1
Word Count
8,182
Interest Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
135907 EN
About this book
Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, this book focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives.