Book Detail
Taste of Salt |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Temple, Frances | Illustrator: |
| Title: Taste of Salt | Date: 1992 |
| Publisher: HarperTrophy | City: New York, NY |
| ISBN, paperback: | ISBN, hardback: 0-06-447136-5 |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes |
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| Book Type(s): fiction | |
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| This gripping novel tells the story of two teenagers in Haiti, Djo, one of Aristides' orphaned boys who is hospitalized with terrible injuries, and Jeremie, a convent-educated girl who visits Djo to hear his stories and who begins to fall in love with him. The book includes a fair bit of dialect and a three-page glossary of Haitian terms and thus may be especially appropriate for higher-level readers. | |
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| Teachers will want to prepare students by introducing Haiti through news articles and discussions of geography and of current events. Because of the book's political nature and the recent U.S. role in Haiti, teachers may want to ground students first in a full context and then push for lots of discussion, reaction papers, and journal responses. Teachers may also want to introduce some of the dialect and talk about variations in language. Students may want to make comparisons to the United States (for example, the issue of voting in Haiti as compared to the often apathetic attitude here) or may want to write about what they think the future holds for Jeremie and Djo. Teachers may ask students to pay attention to the artistic ways Temple uses language, perhaps by keeping lists of particularly effective phrases or sentences. Students may also wish to write about the significance of the title. www.haiti.org/ | |
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