Title: The girl with the golden shoes
First published: 2007
Description: Set in 1942 on the imagined island of San Carlos, a cultural cocktail of Trinidad, Cuba, and Jamaica, this is the story of Estrella Thompson, a headstrong fourteen-year-old girl who's forced to fend for herself when she's banished from the isolated fishing village where she's lived all her life.
Subjects: Exile (Punishment), Fiction, Teenage girls, Social isolation, Fiction, historical, Jamaica, fiction
LC classification: PS