Edwidge Danticat
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.