Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine By Maike Moulite, Maritza Moulite Published by Inkyard Press ISBN-13: 9781335777096 Age Range: 13+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “A strong offering mixing a romance, mystery, and adventure in a Caribbean travelogue.” —School Library Journal Description You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a seventeen-year-old Haitian American from Miami with way too little life experience, have to say about anything? Actually, a lot. Thanks to “the incident” (don’t ask), I’m spending the next two months doing what my school is calling a...
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We Are All That’s Left By Carrie Arcos Published by Penguin Young Readers Group ISBN-13: 9780399175541 Age Range: 12+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat “…depicts the horrors of the 1990s Bosnian conflict in this powerful novel that juxtaposes images of the war against a fictionalized terrorist attack in Rhode Island.” —Publishers Weekly Description Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn’t understand Zara’s creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn’t know...
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Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings By Francie Latour Illustrated by Ken Daley Published by Groundwood Books Age Range: 5+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat Through Haiti’s colors, the girl comes to understand this place her family calls home. Description Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow — the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt’s home in...
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American Street By Ibi Zoboi Published by HarperCollins Publishers Age Range: 14+ Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews! Description In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical exploration of America with magical realism and vodou culture. On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s...
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Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation By Edwidge Danticat Illustrated by Leslie Staub Published by Penguin Young Readers Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N “A must-read both for children who live this life of forced separation and those who don’t.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review Description A touching tale of parent-child separation and immigration, from a National Book Award finalist After Saya’s mother is sent to an immigration detention center, Saya finds comfort in listening to her mother’s warm greeting on their...
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A Song for Bijou By Josh Farrar Published by Walker Children’s Farrar handles race and the complexities of interracial relationships by implication, through Alex’s discovery of the vibrant, new (to him) world just blocks away. A solid, timely effort.” –Kirkus Reviews Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N Description Life for Alex Schrader has never involved girls. He goes to an all-boys prep school and spends most of his time goofing around with his friends. But all that changes the first time he meets Bijou Doucet, a Haitian girl recently relocated to...
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First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants Edited by Donald R. Gallo Published by Candlewick Press “Newly transplanted teens will find the voices represented in this collection far more relevant than those echoing forth from the huddled masses of Ellis Island, and American-born readers will gain insight from the palpable depictions of what it’s like to be thrust into ‘the middle of a game where [you] don’t know the players, the rules, or even the object.'” —Jennifer Mattson, Booklist Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N ...
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Behind the Mountains By Edwidge Danticat Published by First Person Fiction/Scholastic “In this gem of a book, Danticat explores the modern immigrant experience through the eyes of one teen.” —School Library Journal “…the author captures the color and texture of Haitian life as well as the heroine’s adjustment to New York.” —Publisher’s Weekly Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N Description It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane...
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