Fresh girl

Description:

After having been sent, at a very young age, from New York to live with her grandmother in Haiti, fourteen-year-old Mardi returns to join her parents and try to shape a new life in Brooklyn.

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Haitian Americans,  Grandmothers,  Fiction,  Child sexual abuse,  School stories,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 6,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12

Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.),  Haiti