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"Haiti 2010: in the aftermath of the earthquake a boy lies trapped beneath the rubble: terrified, thirsty and alone. Shorty is a child of the slums, a teenager who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule his broken city: men who dole out money with one hand and death with the other. But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that burns inside him, fuelling his determination to find his beloved twin sister, stolen from him five years ago. In the darkness the lines between the present and the past begin to blur and, as Shorty fights for life, his struggle becomes part of a two-hundred-year-old story - a story of courage and betrayal, of freedom and of hope. Shorty may not be quite as alone as he believes..."--Publisher's description.
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History, Gangs, Juvenile fiction, Violence, Survival, Fiction, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010, Brothers and sisters, Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804) fast (OCoLC)fst01354524, Haiti Earthquake (2010) fast (OCoLC)fst01755752, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical, Survival skills, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Survival, fiction, Gangs, fiction, Violence, fiction, Haiti, fiction, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Originally published: 2012.
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In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
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