- Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
- Year Published: 2012
- Description: 341 p. ; 21 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
Reading Level
- Lexile: 800
ISBN/Standard Number
- 9781599907437
- 1599907437
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Subjects
- Toussaint Louverture, -- 1743-1803 -- Fiction.
- Survival -- Fiction.
- Gangs -- Fiction.
- Violence -- Fiction.
- Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 -- Fiction.
- Haiti -- Fiction. -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804
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Call number: Teen Fiction , R Printz Award 2013
Available Copies: Downtown Teen, Malletts Teen, Pittsfield Teen, West Teen
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In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
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