Mama's nightingale
Subtitle: a story of immigration and separation
By: by Edwidge Danticat ; illustrations by Leslie Staub
Contributors: Staub, Leslie, 1957- illustrator
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780525428091
Subjects: Detention of persons; Haitian Americans; Separation (Psychology); Emigration and immigration; Mothers and daughters; Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Text in English.