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2018., Primary, Groundwood Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow--the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt's home in the mountains. The girl has always loved Auntie Luce's paintings--the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the water, heroes who fought for and won the country's independence. Through Haiti's colors, the girl comes to understand this place her family calls home"--Provided by publisher.
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[2019]., Charlesbridge Teen Call No: REALISTIC F CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--Provided by the publisher.
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2022., Adolescent, Charlesbridge Teen Call No: Historical Fic Charles Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1984 New Jersey, fifteen-year-old Beatriz Mendez dreams of becoming a professional dancer like her idol Debbie Allen. Then her gang-leader brother is murdered and the fierce Beatriz is forced to step into her brother's shoes to run the gang at a time when cocaine was the dominant force running the neighborhood. Her dreams of dancing are all but gone, and her mother, grieving over the loss of her son, has turned into a shell of her former self. Then a classmate asks Beatriz to join him in a dance competition and her passion for dance once again sneaks in.
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Ã2019., Adolescent, Charlesbridge Teen Call No: TEEN FIC CHA Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--Provided by publisher.
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Ã2019., Adolescent, Charlesbridge Teen Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC CHA Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Young adult FIC PHILIPPE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Henri 'Halti' Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son, and the trusted dog walker for his wealthy New York City neighbors. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his 'intense' classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what started as a mutual hustle turns into something more surprising than either of them ever bargained for . . ."--Dust jacket.
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2018., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: ROMANCE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Henri 'Halti' Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son, and the trusted dog walker for his wealthy New York City neighbors. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his 'intense' classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what started as a mutual hustle turns into something more surprising than either of them ever bargained for . . ."--Dust jacket.
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[2020]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Romance Fic Philippe Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone, which comes in handy as a scholarship student at the prestigious FATE academy and as a trusted dog walker. There's only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his neighbor and classmate Corinne Troy. After she uncovers the truth behind Henri's dog walking job, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees and what started out as a mutal hustle quickly turns into something that surprises both of them.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Ink Yard Press Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti and writing the report of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
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2018., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: REALISTIC F PHI Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
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2018., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
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2018., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: TEEN FIC PHI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
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Ã2019., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: TEEN FIC PHI Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
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2020., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Humor Fic Philippe Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
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c2002., Wendy Lamb Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After having been sent, at a very young age, from New York to live with her grandmother in Haiti, fourteen-year-old Mardi returns to join her parents and try to shape a new life in Brooklyn.
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-- Girl's guide to love and magic2022., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: ROMANCE F RIG Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Haitian American Cicely is excited to celebrate the West Indian Day Parade with her aunt, and voodoo dabbler, Mimose, but when Mimose's dabbling goes awry and she becomes possessed by a spirit, Cicely, Renee, and Kwame, her crush, must find a way to set things right.
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[2015]., Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.
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2021., Adolescent, Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC RIG Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things get complicated, and Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone.
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-- Storm witch2005., Adolescent, Bloomsbury ; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers Call No: Historical fiction FIC VAUGHT Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1969, sixteen-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in both voodoo and Amazonian warrior tactics, uses her skills to fight against racism and the African witch Zashar, now coming ashore in the form of Hurricane Camille.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: FIC ARNOLD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After moving from her home in Haiti to her uncle's home in Brooklyn, ten-year-old Gabrielle, feeling bullied and out of place, makes a misguided deal with a witch.
