Title: Mama's nightingale
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.
Subjects: Detention of persons, Haitian Americans, Separation (Psychology), Emigration and immigration, Mothers and daughters, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Emigration and immigration, fiction, Bedtime & Dreams, Family, Social Themes, Emigration & Immigration