Title: Red midnight
First published: 2002
Description: When guerrilla soldiers strike Santiago's village, they destroy everything in their path — including his home and family. Santiago and his four-year-old sister escape, running for their lives. But the only way they can be truly safe is to leave Guatemala behind forever. So Santiago and Angelina set sail in a sea kayak their Uncle Ramos built while dreaming of his own escape. Sailing through narrow channels guarded by soldiers, shark-infested waters, and days of painful heat and raging storms, Santiago and Angelina face an almost impossible voyage hundreds of miles across the open ocean, heading for the hope of a new life in the United States.
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Kayaks, Kayaks and kayaking, Survival, Kayaks -- Juvenile fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Canoes and canoeing, Kyaking, Immigration and emigration, Children's fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Guatemala, fiction, Survival, fiction
Places: Guatemala
LC classification: PZ7.M5926 Rc 2002