TY - BOOK AU - Engle,Margarita TI - The firefly letters: a suffragette's journey to Cuba SN - 9780805090826 (hardcover) : AV - JUV PS 3555.N4254 F57 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Henry Holt and Co. KW - Novels in verse KW - Women KW - Suffrage KW - Cuba KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Fiction N1 - Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; MG+; 6.2; 1 N2 - Draws on little-known Cuban history to tell a stirring story in poetry. Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, the story focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives ER -