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Eight Days : : a Story of Haiti

Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Book - 2010 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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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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Sympathy submitted by jackson.sarah.jean on November 2, 2015, 9:46am This is a good true story that isn't too intense to share with kids. It shares the experience of a boy stuck in rubble after the earthquake in Haiti.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Orchard Books, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 820

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780545278492 (hardcover)
054527849X (hardcover)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Delinois, Alix.

SUBJECTS
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 -- Fiction.
Earthquakes -- Haiti -- Fiction.
Imagination -- Fiction.
Play -- Fiction.
Haiti -- Fiction.