Depestre, René
Summary: "Takes place primarily during carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning of the wedding, Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion and collapses at the altar. Transformed into a zombie, her wedding becomes her funeral. She is buried by the town, revived by an evil sorcerer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2001
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Summary: Two children lost at sea must overcome a language barrier if they want to find a way home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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Summary: Award-winning children's book author Ren Colato Laníez teams up again with illustrator Fabricio Vanden Broeck to explore the experiences of newcomers in U.S. schools and affirm that yes! They do belong here.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piñata Books 2023
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Summary: A tale inspired by Jewish mythology is set in a woodland village on the border of Moldova and Ukraine and follows the experiences of two sheltered sisters who uncover a secret magical heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redhook 2018
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Summary: After bringing her father back into the human world, twelve-year-old Maya, a guardian-in-training, is forced to return to The Dark and restore what she left behind, the one thing keeping the veil from falling--her father's soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman's life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true. wasn't? Clara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. The last thing her husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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Summary: "Twenty years ago, a nine-year-old boy was swept away by powerful waves on a remote Oregon beach, his body lost to the sea. Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death. For most of her life, Amanda Dufresne had no idea she had an older brother named Dennis Owens, or that he had died. Adopted as a baby, she learned about him while looking into her late birth mother, and is curious to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Summary: "A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: After years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah discovers it comes at a terrible price. Now the last surviving witchdoctor, she is left to pick up the shattered pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom in shambles, and long-buried secrets about who she is. Struggling to rebuild, Arrah discovers there may be survivors who escaped the demons' attack on the tribes. Meanwhile, her beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: As Old MacDonald sings of farm animals that moo and woof, Señor Pancho sings of those that jii and guau, until the animals realize they understand each other and get together for a fiesta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013
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Summary: As a boy and his Papá travel from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with Mamá, his wonderful new shoes help to distract him from the long and difficult journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinata Books, an imprint of Arte Publico Press 2019
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Summary: A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. The search takes her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1975
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2002
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Summary: A new excitement comes to the village of Thrush Green when the corner house on the green is taken by Harold Shoosmith, a distinguished bachelor who has chosen the village for his retirement. Harold is soon enmeshed in village politics and becomes involved in the private lives of his neighbors as well. His presence has a dramatic effect on Dimity Dean and Ella Bembridge and is the cause of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1992