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Mama's nightingale : a story of immigration and separation / by Edwidge Danticat ; illustrations by Leslie Staub.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.D2385 Mam 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Separation (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
- Separation (Psychology).
- Detention of persons--Juvenile fiction.
- Detention of persons.
- Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Haitian Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- Haitian Americans.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Separation--Fiction.
- Detention of persons--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Haitian Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Picture books.
- Picture books for children -- Juvenile fiction.
- Illustrated works.
- Juvenile works.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- A Junior Library Guild Selection.
- ISBN:
- 9780525428091
- 0525428097
- OCLC:
- 893389675
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