Red midnight

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