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 Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at her country with new eyes, Celiane gains a fresh resolve to be reunited with her father in Brooklyn, New York. The harsh winter and concrete landscape of her new home are a shock to Celiane, who witnesses her parents’ struggle to earn a living, her brother’s uneasy adjustment to American society, and her own encounters with learning difficulties and school violence.

Related: Americas, Haiti, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction

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• ISBN: 9780439372992
• Author: Danticat, Edwidge
• Published: 2002, Scholastic Paperbacks
• Themes: Diary, Emigration and immigration, Family, Haitian Americans, Immigrants, journeys, new beginning, New home, oppression, Poverty, School, War
• Descriptors: Americas, Haiti, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction
• No. of pages: 224