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Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
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Meet Liline, a Haitian-American kindergartener and her sassy cat Pepper as they learn, explore, and have fun in their city neighborhood. In Book 1 of this Level 1 early reader series, Liline and her family discover a cat and after trying to find its family with no luck, happily keep her. It takes a bit to pick the perfect name but they finally do!
Author
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
In the second book of this early reader series about a Haitian-American girl named Liline, her cat Pepper, and their multi-generational family, Liline and Pepper learn a little about Grann's homeland, Haiti, during the morning routine of getting ready for school.
3) Krik? Krak!
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English
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When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with ten stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling to survive under the brutal Duvalier regime, Danticat illuminates the distance between people's desires and...
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English
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When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian whose family just moved to Austin, Texas, Norris finds himself cataloging everyone he meets: the Cheerleaders, the Jocks, the Loners, and even the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. He's amusing...
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English
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At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things...
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English
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After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Cartel series comes a new chapter in a world that only Ashley and JaQuavis know how to bring to life. The LaCroixs are four beautiful Haitian American women bound by money and blood. On the surface The LaCroix Group is a venture capitalist company, but underneath it's so much more. The four sisters run long cons, targeting wealthy, prominent business figures. They have a system. Find the perfect...
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