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1) Black cake
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
2) Hawke
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alexander Hawke heads for the Caribbean on a secret mission for the U.S. government to locate an experimental stealth submarine which has fallen into the hands of an unstable government planning a preemptive strike against the United States.
3) Impulse
Author
Language
English
Description
Journalist Rafaella Holland discovers from her comatose mother's journals that her "real" father is Dominick Giovanni, a powerful arms dealer who runs his operations from his own private island compound in the Caribbean. Dominick abandoned her mother after Rafaella's birth, a terrible secret that has been hidden from her all these years ... Aching for revenge, Ragaella poses as a biographer and finagles an invitation to Dominick's private island....
10) Gold dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napolean, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napolean will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school.
Author
Series
Former FBI Agent E.L. Pender volume 3
Language
English
Description
Assisting a friend in the Virgin Islands with a disturbing serial murder case, retired FBI special agent E.L. Pender investigates his suspicions about the killer's connection to the latest victim.
Former FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender may be retired, but he jumps at the chance to help solve a particularly gruesome series of crimes in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is no ordinary case, seeing as the right hand on each body in the string of murders...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her, sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in his pigeons and his grief over his mother's death.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American,...
17) Isla
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stunning in its sweep, Americas is the most authoritative history available of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. From Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, and from Cuba to Trinidad and Tobago, Americas examines the historical, demographic, political, social, cultural, religious, and economic trends in the region"--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anjali dreams of hosting a televised cooking show featuring foods based on her Hindu and Trinidadian heritage, but when an opportunity presents itself, she will have to defy her family to go to the audition. Includes recipes.
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