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Region: Jamaica
Blue Mountain Trouble
After being saved from a disastrous landslide by an extraordinary goat that blocks their usual way to school, twins Pollyread and Jackson, living with their parents high in the mountains of Jamaica, find the strange goat reappearing at crucial intervals as their day-to-day life is changed by series of mysterious events involving the return of [...]
Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Fantasy, Intermediate (Gr. 4-8) Themes: Brother and sister, Drug, education, Family life, mountain life, mystical creature, twin Leave a comment
A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
Richard Hughes’s celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. [...]
The Tangerine Tree
When Ida finds out that Papa must leave Jamaica to work in America, she’s heartbroken. But there is some consolation in knowing that Papa needs her to care of the tangerine tree while he’s away, and his parting gift of a book comes with a promise: he’ll be home again by the time she’s able [...]
Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Picture Book, Primary (Gr. K-3), Realistic Fiction Themes: Emigration and immigration, father and daughter, reunion, separation anxiety Leave a comment
Where Jamaica Go?
Jamaica has fun and sees many colorful sights as she goes downtown, goes beach, and rides home with Daddy.
Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Picture Book, Poetry, Preschool, Realistic Fiction Themes: downtown, island, Ocean, rhyme Leave a comment
The Face at the Window
Dora learns to overcome her fears of a mentally ill woman who lives in her community in this gentle and compassionate story set in contemporary Jamaica, West Indies.
Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Primary (Gr. K-3), Realistic Fiction Themes: Acceptance, bully, Community, Fear, mentally ill, overcome fears, peer presure Leave a comment
Angelina’s Island
Every day, Angelina dreams of her home in Jamaica and imagines she is there, until her mother finds a wonderful way to convince her that New York is now their home.
Other Descriptors: Caribbean, Picture Book, Primary (Gr. K-3), Realistic Fiction Themes: adjustment, home, homesickness, immigrant, Jamaican American, New York, parade Comments closed
On October 20, 2010 at 7:00 P.M., Rosemary Wells, illustrator and author of the preschool series Max and Ruby, will be at Worlds of Words physical location on the 4th floor of the College of Education at the University of Arizona.
Doctor Bird: Three Lookin’ Up Tales From Jamaica