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In Darkness

by Nick Lake
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Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award
This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, a mystical bridge seems to emerge between him and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, uniting the two in their darkest suffering-and their hope.
A modern teen and a black slave, separated by hundreds of years. Yet in some strange way, the boy in the ruins of Port au Prince and the man who led the struggle for Haiti's independence might well be one and the same . . .
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 11, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9781599908205
  • Release date: January 11, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781599908205
  • File size: 1423 KB
  • Release date: January 11, 2012
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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.6
Lexile® Measure:800
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:3-4

Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award
This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, a mystical bridge seems to emerge between him and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, uniting the two in their darkest suffering-and their hope.
A modern teen and a black slave, separated by hundreds of years. Yet in some strange way, the boy in the ruins of Port au Prince and the man who led the struggle for Haiti's independence might well be one and the same . . .
Expand title description text
Historical Fiction Young Adult Fiction