Haitian/Haitian American
A Song for Bijou
Age 10 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Dating, Family Relationship: Siblings, Family Separation: Living with Other Family or Friends, Generational Differences: Dating
American Street
Age 12 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Dating, Detention, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: By Detention, Unaccompanied Minors
Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings
Age 05 or older
Themes: Generation: 1st, Multiracial Identity, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Visiting Home Country, Welcoming Library Selection
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
Age 13 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Visiting Home Country
Freedom Soup
Age 05 or older
Themes: Celebration & Commemoration, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Generation: 1st, Historical, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Mama’s Nightingale
Age 06 or older
Themes: Detention, Educator Resource, Engagement Tool: Discussion, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: By Detention, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming Library Selection
Running
Age 12 or older
Themes: Bilingual Character, Family Relationship: Parents, Multiracial Identity
The Year I Flew Away
Age 08 or older
Themes: Bilingual Character, Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Racial, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Family Separation: Living with Other Family or Friends, Own Voices/Lived Experience
We Are All That’s Left
Age 12 or older
Themes: Death of Family or Friend, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Genocide, Loss of Childhood, Multiracial Identity, Refugee: Persecution, Refugee: War/Conflict, Religious Background: Muslim, The Arts