Eight days a story of Haiti
Junior tells of the games he played in his mind during the eight days he was trapped in his house after the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti. Includes author's note about Haitian children before the earthquake and her own children's reactions to the disaster.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Orchard Books,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | Junior tells of the games he played in his mind during the eight days he was trapped in his house after the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti. Includes author's note about Haitian children before the earthquake and her own children's reactions to the disaster. |
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| Item Description: | Col. ill. on lining papers. |
| Physical Description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Audience: | 4-7. Preschool-2. |
| ISBN: | 9780545278492 (hc) 054527849X (hc) |
| Author Notes: | Along with awards for fiction from Seventeen and Essence and the 1995 Pushcart Short Story Prize, Danticat was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as "one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference," and by the New York Times Magazine as one of "30 Under 30" people to watch. Her second novel, The Farming of Bones (1998), concerns a massacre in Haiti in 1937. (Bowker Author Biography) |
