In darkness

Lake, Nick

Notes
Summary: In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
Additional Notes
Courage
Disasters
Corruption
Family Relationships
Language
Violence
Librarian's Miscellania
Reading age: YEAR 11
Physical Description: 336 p
MARC Import date: vi, 288 p, ill. (some col.)
MARC Record: [25] p, col. ill
Location edition Bar Code due date
Library senior fiction GCS00974
call #:LAK
ISBN:9781408819951
pub:2013
Subjects
Survival - Fiction
Gangs - Fiction
Revolutions - Fiction
Violence and non-violence - Fiction
Toussaint L'Ouverture, Pierre Dominique - Fiction
Haiti Earthquake, 2010 - Fiction
Haiti - Fiction
Senior Fiction
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