When Saya’s mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own–one that just might bring her mother home.
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- ISBN: 9780525428091
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Illustrator: Staub, Leslie
- Published: 2015 , Dial Books
- Themes: Bedtime stories, illegal immigrant, Inspirational, Mother
- Descriptors: Haiti, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction
- No. of pages: 32