03628cam a2200565 i 4500 481096826 TxAuBib 20210203120000.0 190822s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781335777096 hbk. $18.99 1335777091 hbk. $18.99 (OCoLC)1105645025 TxAuBib rda Moulite, Maika. Dear Haiti, love Alaine [Print] / Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite. Hardback. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Ink Yard Press, [2019] 422 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Jacket. Haiti. Co-written by sisters Maika and Maritza Moulite, and told in epistolary style through letters, articles, emails, and diary entries, this exceptional debut novel captures a sparkling new voice and irrepressible heroine in a celebration of storytelling sure to thrill fans of Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi and Jenna Evans Welch! When a school presentation goes very wrong, Alaine Beauparlant finds herself suspended, shipped off to Haiti and writing the report of a lifetime… You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a seventeen-year-old Haitian American from Miami with way too little life experience, have to say about anything? Actually, a lot. Thanks to “the incident” (don’t ask), I'm spending the next two months doing what my school is calling a "spring volunteer immersion project.” It’s definitely no vacation. I’m toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle at her new nonprofit. And my lean-in queen of a mother is even here to make sure I do things right. Or she might just be lying low to dodge the media sharks after a much more public incident of her own…and to hide a rather devastating secret. All things considered, there are some pretty nice perks…like flirting with Tati’s distractingly cute intern, getting actual face time with my mom and experiencing Haiti for the first time. I’m even exploring my family’s history—which happens to be loaded with betrayals, superstitions and possibly even a family curse. You know, typical drama. But it's nothing I can't handle. 13 and UP. 20210203. Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2021.) Haitian American teenagers Fiction. Haitian American teenagers Juvenile fiction. Student suspension Fiction. Student suspension Juvenile fiction. Report writing Fiction. Report writing Juvenile fiction. Haitian Americans Fiction. Haitian Americans Juvenile fiction. Coming of age Fiction. Coming of age Juvenile fiction. Young Adult Fiction / Epistolary (letters & Diaries.) Haiti Fiction. Haiti Juvenile fiction. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Places / Caribbean & Latin America. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Parents. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Hispanic & Latino. YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance. Moulite, Maritza, author. TXTLL