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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
Publication date
January 5, 2012
Pages
352
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781408819975
ISBN-10
140881997X
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$19.75
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In darkness I count my blessings like Manman taught me. One: I am alive. Two: there is no two. In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake a boy is trapped beneath the rubble of a ruined hospital: thirsty, terrified and alone. 'Shorty' is a child of the slums, a teenage boy who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime, and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule Site Soleil: men who dole out money with one hand and death with the other. But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that blazes inside him and a burning wish to find the twin sister he lost five years ago. And he is marked. Marked in a way that links him with Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian rebel who two-hundred years ago led the slave revolt and faced down Napoleon to force the French out of Haiti. As he grows weaker, Shorty relives the journey that took him to the hospital, a bullet wound in his arm. In his visions and memories he hopes to find the strength to survive, and perhaps then Toussaint can find a way to be free ...
Editions
Hardcover
from Bloomsbury USA (January 17, 2012)
9781599907437 | details & prices | 341 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.78 lbs | List price $17.99
from Bloomsbury Pub Ltd (January 5, 2012)
9781408824184 | details & prices | 352 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.02 lbs | List price $21.95
About: In darkness I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
About: In darkness I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Bloomsbury USA (January 28, 2014)
9781619631229 | details & prices | 341 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.64 lbs | List price $10.99
The price comparison is for this edition
from Bloomsbury Pub Ltd (January 5, 2012)
9781408819975 | details & prices | 352 pages | List price $19.75
About: In darkness I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
About: In darkness I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
With Larry Beason |
from Palgrave Macmillan (June 1, 1997); titled "Now I Get It: A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage"
9780312152871 | details & prices | List price $30.00
This edition also contains Now I Get It: A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage
This edition also contains Now I Get It: A Commonsense Guide to Grammar and Usage
CD/Spoken Word
With Benjamin L. Darcie (other contributor) |
Mp3 una edition from Brilliance Audio (January 17, 2012)
9781455877058 | details & prices | 7.50 × 0.50 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.10 lbs | List price $19.99
About: Shorty is a Haitian boy trapped in the rubble of a hospital when an earthquake shatters the world around him.
About: Shorty is a Haitian boy trapped in the rubble of a hospital when an earthquake shatters the world around him.
With Benjamin L. Darcie (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Brilliance Audio (January 17, 2012)
9781455877034 | details & prices | 4.75 × 5.25 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.35 lbs | List price $24.99
Prebinding
from Turtleback Books (January 28, 2014)
9780606350907 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.78 lbs | List price $22.10
About: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
About: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
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