| #3097607 in Books | 2002-01-08 | 2002-01-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.54 x.84 x5.78l, | File type: PDF | 224 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By jay|Very good read|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good read for 12 year old.|By Anthony Lashley|Bought for my 12 year old for summer reading. She loved it. And would recommend for young teenager to read.|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Caught Betwe|.com |"In French my name means Tuesday (Mardi)... because I was born on a Tuesday. Thank God it wasn't a Wednesday because then my name would have been Mercredi. In English it sounds like a pain reliever." When it comes to her name, 14-year-old Mardi can jok
Mardi was born in New York, but her parents sent her to Haiti to be raised in her grandmother’s house while they worked. When a coup d’état means 12-year-old Mardi and her sister must flee, they suddenly arrive in Brooklyn to live with parents they hardly know. Now it’s two years later. Mardi has adapted to her new life, while savoring sweet memories of her home in Haiti. But she is also haunted by her secret: a soldier raped her when she fled. T...
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