Text-size

Printer-friendlyPrinter-friendly
Cover image for In darkness
ISBN#9781599907437
BIB ID#1536489
Call# FIC Lake

In darkness

4
Author
Lake, Nick.

 

Publisher
New York : Bloomsbury Pub : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2012.
Subjects
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803 -- Survival -- Gangs -- Violence -- Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 -- Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 --
Description
341 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.

Reviews and Notes

Summary/Annotation ->  

Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award

Bloomsbury is proud to be the global publisher of In Darkness, a stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. "Shorty" is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching out to him across two hundred yearsof history. It is the presence of slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence, and whose own end came in darkness. What unites a child of the slums with the man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they share . . . or is it hope?

Raw, harrowing, and peopled with vibrant characters, In Darkness is an extraordinary book about the cruelties of man and nature, and the valiant, ongoing struggle for a country's very survival.

Availability

LocationCall NumberItem TypeVolumeBarcodesort iconStatus
South Ozone Park - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult PaperbackSRC140228552035617Available
Baisley Park- Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228552035674Available
East Elmhurst - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228552035716Available
Central Library Teen SpaceFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228552035724Available
Bayside - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Hard Cover0228554790581Available
Bay Terrace - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Hard Cover0228554790607Available
Corona - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Hard Cover0228554790615Available
Baisley Park- Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Hard Cover0228554790771Available
Lefferts - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Hard Cover0228554802022Available
Ridgewood - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Hard Cover0228554802055Available
Rochdale Village - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Hard Cover0228554802196Available
Forest Hills - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047017Available
Kew Gardens Hills - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047025Available
Langston Hughes - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047041Available
Lefferts - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047132Available
Lefrak City - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047157Available
South Ozone Park - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult PaperbackSRC140228561047165Available
Queensboro Hill - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047173Available
McGoldrick - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047231Available
Mitchell-Linden - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047256Available
Richmond Hill - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047264Available
Ridgewood - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Trade Paperback0228561047298Available
South Hollis - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047348Available
Central Library Teen SpaceFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561047389Available
East Flushing - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561048080Available
East Elmhurst - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561048098Available
Hollis - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561658284Available
Bay Terrace - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561658292Available
East Flushing - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561658300Available
Fresh Meadows - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561658326Available
Forest Hills - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561658334Available
Queens Village - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult PaperbackTeen Summer reading0228561658359Available
St.Albans - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561754414Available
Whitestone - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561754489Available
Flushing - Young AdultYFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561754505Available
Windsor Park - Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228561754521Available
Arverne- Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Paperback0228566475783Available
Glen OaksFIC LakeAdult Hard Cover0228568082728Available
Peninsula- Young AdultFIC LakeAdult Trade Paperback0228607589170Available

Marc Record

02011cam a2200481 a 4500
001
vtls001536489
003
NJQ
005
20140224155100.0
008
111229s2012 nyu d 000 1 eng
010
 
 
$a 2011-022350
020
 
 
$a 9781599907437 (hbk.) : $c $18.00
020
 
 
$a 1599907437 (hardback)
020
 
 
$a 9781619631229 (paperback) : $c $11.00
035
 
 
$a (OCoLC)738346546
035
 
 
$a (OCoLC)ocn738346546
039
 
9
$a 201402241551 $b rramdhan $y 201112291123 $z ashuja
040
 
 
$a DLC $c DLC $d BTCTA
042
 
 
$a lcac $a pcc
043
 
 
$a nwht---
049
 
 
$a ZQPM
050
 
 
$a PZ7.L15857 $b In 2012
082
 
 
$a [Fic] $2 23
099
 
 
$a FIC Lake
100
1
 
$a Lake, Nick.
245
1
 
$a In darkness / $c by Nick Lake.
250
 
 
$a 1st U.S. ed.
260
 
 
$a New York : $b Bloomsbury Pub : $b Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, $c 2012.
300
 
 
$a 341 p. ; $c 21 cm.
520
 
 
$a In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
599
 
 
$a YA Jan12-CP
600
 
 
$a Toussaint Louverture, $d 1743-1803 $v Juvenile fiction.
600
 
 
$a Toussaint Louverture, $d 1743-1803 $v Fiction.
650
 
 
$a Survival $v Fiction.
650
 
 
$a Gangs $v Fiction.
650
 
 
$a Violence $v Fiction.
651
 
 
$a Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 $v Juvenile fiction.
651
 
 
$a Haiti $x History $y Revolution, 1791-1804 $v Juvenile fiction.
651
 
 
$a Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 $v Fiction.
651
 
 
$a Haiti $x History $y Revolution, 1791-1804 $v Fiction.
994
 
 
$a C0 $b ZQP
995
 
 
$a ASHUJA-CC:1211
999
 
 
$a VIRTUA
999
 
 
$a VTLSSORT0010 0080 0100 0351 0400 0202 0200 0201 0350 0420 0430 0500 0820 0490 0990 1000 2450 2500 2600 3000 5200 5990 6510 6511 6000 6512 6513 6001 6500 6501 6502 9940 9950 9992