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1) Morning Girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
3.3
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rafi Francisco needs something really special to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi lands herself a ticket to the exclusive Fly Fest, where River will be the headliner. But when Rafi arrives on the Caribbean island location of Fly Fest with hundreds of other influencers and (very minor) celebrities, they quickly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
6) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492. When Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, what he really discovered was a people with a culture and civilization of their own. Master storyteller Jane Yolen tells of Columbus's initial landing as seen through the eyes of a native Taino boy. Full-color illustrations.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences that include learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.
8) Tingalayo
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Description
While his master is not looking, Tingalayo the donkey sneaks off to dance and sing at the fair. Includes the musical notation to this Carribbean folk song.
10) Tiny and Bigman
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
On an island in the West Indies, a big, strong woman with a booming voice meets a weak, nearly deaf man, they fall in love and expect a baby and a hurricane at the same time.
11) O Christmas tree
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A boy wants an evergreen tree for Christmas in this story set in the West Indies.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.
13) Tingalayo
Author
Series
Publisher
Cantata Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This Sing-along Animal Song is a lively Caribbean tune about Tingalayo, a donkey that certainly doesn't act like a donkey. He eats with a knife and fork! What else can Tingalayo do?
14) Encuentro
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
1996
Language
Español
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Milagros barely survives an invasion of her tiny, Caribbean island home, escapes with the help of mysterious sea creatures, reunites briefly with her pirate-father, and learns about a mother's love when cast ashore on another island.
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