Mama's nightingale : a story of immigration and separation

Label

Mama's nightingale : a story of immigration and separation

Title remainder

a story of immigration and separation

Statement of responsibility

by Edwidge Danticat ; illustrations by Leslie Staub

Creator

• Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

Contributor

• Staub, Leslie, 1957-

Author

• Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

Illustrator

• Staub, Leslie, 1957-

Subject

• Haitian Americans -- Juvenile fiction
• Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
• Detention of persons -- Juvenile fiction
• Haitian Americans -- Fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
• Detention of persons -- Fiction
• Separation (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
• Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home

Contributor

• Staub, Leslie, 1957-

Subject

• Haitian Americans
• Picture books for children
• Immigration and emigration
• Detention of persons
• Illegal immigrants
• Separated friends, relatives, etc
• Mothers and daughters

Genre

• Picture books for children

Tone

• Moving
• Serious

Character

• Culturally diverse
• Sympathetic

Illustration line

• Folk-art style
• Lavish

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[E]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

NC 890

Intended audience source

Lexile

Language note

Text in English

LC call number

PZ7.D2385

LC item number

Mam 2015

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

890

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 0
• 3

Target audience

primary

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleVariationRemainder

a story of immigration and separation