Enchanted air / Engle, Margarita

Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba. Margarita fears for her faraway family. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts into the Bay of Pigs invasion, Margarita's worlds collide in the worst way possible. How can the two countries she loves hate each other so much? And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?.

Poetic memoir by Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of her experiences growing up in two cultures, Cuban and American, during the Cold War.