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Mama's nightingale : a story of immigration and separation
Call Number
- JE GROW DANT (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Publication Information
New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2015]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary
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.
Subjects
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
- Separation (Psychology) > Fiction.
- Detention of persons > Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
- Haitian Americans > Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
- Separation (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
- Detention of persons > Juvenile fiction.
- Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction.
- Haitian Americans > Juvenile fiction.