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PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012
DESCRIPTION
341 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781599907437 (hardback), 1599907437 (hardback)
LANGUAGE
English
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Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award
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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