📖Recommend for Grades 9 and up📖
by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
After her school presentation goes horribly wrong, Alaine is suspended from school. Her parents decide to send her to Haiti, where her mom has been living since her on-air explosion. While in Haiti, Alaine is to spend her time interning at her aunt's non-profit and learning about the local culture and her family's heritage. A heritage that includes a curse that Alaine feels explains what is happening to her mother.
The story is told in multiple formats, including e-mails, postcards, texts, and diary entries, which excellently presents the story. Alaine is a smart and witty teen, who readers will come to love if they don't do so from the beginning. While Alaine and her family are fictional, readers will get an intriguing look into Haiti and its culture.
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