Book Detail
Tonight, By Sea |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Temple, Frances | Illustrator: |
| Title: Tonight, By Sea | Date: 1995 |
| Publisher: Orchard Books | City: New York, NY |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-531-08749-2 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes |
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| Book Type(s): fiction | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies |
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| A Haitian girl, Paulie, joins with her village to secretly build and launch a boat and escape to Miami. The book is full of dialect and may be too difficult for some readers, but the subject matter and compelling story make it good reading. | |
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| Teachers may want to bring this story up to date and, through use of newspapers, attempt to evaluate what has happened since Aristides' return to Haiti. Have things improved? What has the role of the US government been? Students may want to explore the questions of what Paulie would find if she went back to Haiti now. What would her life in Miami be like? Students may want to keep a current events journal along with the reading of this book. Teachers may want to provide help with dialect and lead discussions on the experience of illegal and legal immigration. It would fit into a unit with Thomas' Lights on the River and Bunting's How Many Days to America? Readers may want to also read Temple's prize winning book Taste of Salt, also set in Haiti. | |
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