In darkness
About this book
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.
Subjects
- brothers and sisters
- children's fiction
- fiction
- gangs
- gangs, fiction
- haiti earthquake (2010) fast (ocolc)fst01755752
- haiti earthquake, haiti, 2010
- haiti, fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile fiction / historical
- new york times reviewed
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- revolution (haiti : 1791-1804) fast (ocolc)fst01354524
- survival
- survival, fiction
- survival skills
- violence
- violence, fiction