Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
- ISBN: 9780593206690
- Author: Margarita Engle
- Published: 2022 , Viking Books for Young Readers
- Themes: Acceptance, Animals, Courage, Friendship, justice, Performing Arts, Stories in verse
- Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Latinx in US, United States
- No. of pages: 224