Review: In Darkness

Title: In DarknessSeries: No Genre: Young Adult-ContempoaryAuthor: Nick LakePublisher: Bloomsbury USA ChildrensRelease Date: January 17, 2012Book: ARC sent by publisher “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 years of history. It is the presence of slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint...

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