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Mama's Nightingale : : a Story of Immigration and Separation

Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Book - 2015 Kids Book / Picture Books / Big Changes / Miscellaneous 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 1 v. (unpaged)
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780525428091
0525428097

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Staub, Leslie, 1957-

SUBJECTS
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Detention of persons -- Fiction.
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
Haitian Americans -- Fiction.