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Eight Days: A Story of Haiti

32 pp. | Scholastic/Orchard | September, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-27849-2 $17.99
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Alix Delinois. A boy buried in the Port-au-Prince rubble imagines doing things he loves on each of eight days awaiting rescue. These include flying kites and playing soccer; on the sad fifth day, though, his best friend, also trapped, dies. Every double-page spread is filled with deep acrylic strokes as bright as the tropics, with the boy's hopeful eyes looking directly at readers.
Reviewer: Robin L. Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2010

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