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Summary/Annotation -> Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded by the bodies of the dead, increasingly weak from lack of food and water, Shorty begins to hallucinate. As he waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, a mystical bridge seems to emerge between him and Haitian leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, uniting the two in their darkest suffering-and their hope. A modern teen and a black slave, separated by hundreds of years. Yet in some strange way, the boy in the ruins of Port au Prince and the man who led the struggle for Haiti's independence might well be one and the same . . .
| Location | Call Number | Item Type | Volume | Barcode | Status |
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| Auburndale- Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790755 | Available | |
| Baisley Park- Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790771 | Available | |
| Bay Terrace - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790607 | Available | |
| Bayside - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790581 | Available | |
| Bellerose - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790789 | Available | |
| Briarwood - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790599 | Available | |
| Broadway - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790763 | Available | |
| Cambria Heights - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790748 | Available | |
| Central Library Young Adult Room | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228552540129 | Due 5-7-2013 | |
| Court Square - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790730 | Available | |
| Douglaston - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790722 | Available | |
| East Elmhurst - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790672 | Available | |
| East Flushing - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802162 | Available | |
| Far Rockaway - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790540 | Due 5-23-2013 | |
| Flushing - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228546218238 | Due 6-3-2013 | |
| Flushing - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790557 | Due 5-13-2013 | |
| Forest Hills - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790532 | Available | |
| Fresh Meadows - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790524 | Available | |
| Glendale - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790706 | Available | |
| Hollis - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802014 | Available | |
| Howard Beach - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790680 | Available | |
| Jackson Heights - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802063 | Available | |
| Kew Gardens Hills - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801958 | Available | |
| Langston Hughes - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801917 | Available | |
| Laurelton - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802089 | Available | |
| Lefferts - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802022 | Available | |
| Lefrak City - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802071 | Available | |
| Lefrak City - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554831252 | Available | |
| Maspeth - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801941 | Available | |
| McGoldrick - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801933 | Available | |
| Middle Village - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802154 | Available | |
| Mitchell-Linden - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801925 | Due 6-3-2013 | |
| North Forest Park - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802147 | Available | |
| North Hills - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802048 | Available | |
| Ozone Park - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228557693352 | Due 5-9-2013 | |
| Pomonok - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802170 | Available | |
| Poppenhusen - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801974 | Available | |
| Queens Village - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802006 | Available | |
| Rego Park - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802204 | Available | |
| Richmond Hill - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801982 | Available | |
| Ridgewood - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802055 | Due 5-16-2013 | |
| Rochdale Village - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802196 | Available | |
| Rosedale - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801966 | Available | |
| South Jamaica - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801867 | Available | |
| South Ozone Park - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801826 | Available | |
| St.Albans - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802113 | Available | |
| Steinway - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802139 | Available | |
| Sunnyside - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801909 | Available | |
| Whitestone - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801818 | Available | |
| Windsor Park - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802097 | Available | |
| Woodside - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554801883 | Available |
2013 Queens Library