In Darkness
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- Synopsis
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This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti.
Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate.
As he waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, a mystical bridge seems to emerge between him and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, uniting the two in their darkest suffering-and their hope.
A modern teen and a black slave, separated by hundreds of years.
Yet in some strange way, the boy in the ruins of Port au Prince and the man who led the struggle for Haiti's independence might well be one and the same...
Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 347 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781599907437
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury USA
- Date of Addition:
- 09/08/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Nick Lake
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Teens, Literature and Fiction
- Grade Levels:
- Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.