Mama's nightingale: a story of immigration and separation

by Edwidge Danticat; illustrations by Leslie Staub

Resource Type:: Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:: New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]
Copyright:: ©2015

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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.
Author/Creator:: Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- , author
Contributors:: Staub, Leslie, 1957- , illustrator
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Main Work:: Mama's nightingale: a story of immigration and separation [by Danticat, E.]
Subjects:: Mothers and daughters — Juvenile fiction
Separation (Psychology) — Juvenile fiction
Detention of persons — Juvenile fiction
Emigration and immigration — Juvenile fiction
Haitian Americans — Juvenile fiction
Mothers and daughters
Separation (Psychology)
Detention of persons
Emigration and immigration
Haitian Americans
United States
Genres:: Fiction
Juvenile works
General Notes:: Accelerated Reader LG 3.9 0.5 176658 EN.
Reading Counts K-2 4.7 2
Audience:: Children
Ages: 6-8.
Grades: 1-3.
890L (source: Lexile)
Physical Description:: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Call Numbers:: JE D193ma
ISBNs:: 9780525428091
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 2014039868
OCLC Numbers:: 893389675
Other Control Numbers:: [Unknown Type]: jlg18337943

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