Across
- 3. Margarita's extended family suddenly seem as remote as the _____.
- 5. Abuelita's faraway gift to Margarita
- 10. Newsmen call it the __________.
- 14. Margarita never finds books about Cuba, the ______-shaped island.
- 16. A swampy invasion of Cubs
- 17. Margarita feels safe as if she is a ____, and the words are her shell.
- 18. Margarita befriends a _____ kitten.
- 19. Books become Margarita's ______.
Down
- 1. _____ succeeds. Words win. Death loses.
- 2. Margarita asks why the work of girls has to be _______.
- 4. Nature's creations helps Margarita feel almost at home in her _____ world.
- 6. Margarita loves travel but she hates ______.
- 7. ______ between the two countries that I love break down.
- 8. Each _____ is sheer terror, but some of the city kids giggle.
- 9. It's safe to _____ now. No radiation.
- 11. Margarita gets a suspension for wearing a _______.
- 12. An almost-war of words, not a battle of bombs.
- 13. In English class, Margarita writes _____, stories to explain scientific mysteries.
- 15. A creature that is half horse and half man
- 16. Margarita calls herself a _____-misfit with long black braids.