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Mama's nightingale : a story of immigration and separation /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- (Author)
Other Authors: Staub, Leslie, 1957- (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Text in English.
Published: New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015]
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.
Detention of persons.
Emigration and immigration.
Haitian Americans.
Mothers and daughters.
Separation (Psychology)
Juvenile works.
Fiction.
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN:9780525428091
0525428097