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Danticat, Edwidge

Behind the Mountains

167 pp. | Scholastic/Orchard | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-439-37299-2 $$16.95
(2) YA First Person Fiction series. The two books in this new series give narrative life to the American immigrant experience. In both novels, a thirteen-year-old protagonist records in her diary her feelings about, in Flight, leaving Cuba for Miami in 1967 or, in Mountains, leaving Haiti for New York in 2000. The excellence of the writing and the resilient outlook of both first-person fictions set a high standard for this series. [Review covers these First Person Fiction titles: Behind the Mountains and Flight to Freedom.]
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2003

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