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1) The jumbies
Author
Series
Jumbies ; 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Author
Series
Jumbies ; 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
Author
Series
Jumbies ; 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him." --
Author
Series
Dive ; 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Four kids spend the summer deep sea diving and make a dangerous discovery.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Indy, sent to live with relatives in Nassau, struggles to conceal that she is pregnant by rape. Turned out by her aunt, completely broke with only a hand-me-down pregnancy book as a resource, Indy desperately looks for a safe space to call home. A yoga retreat might be the place. But Indy is about to discover that home is more just four walls and a roof-- it's the people she chooses to share it with. -- adapted from amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who can grant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more painful than the loss of her mother."--
Author
Series
Cay ; 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old Black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white boy Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
8) Coconut mon
Author
Publisher
Tambourine Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The coconut man sells his ten coconuts one by one.
9) Dive trilogy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Kaz, Dante, Adriana, and Star have been chosen to spend the summer exploring the Caribbean. They begin their adventure thinking they will learn to dive and study marine life, but they soon realize that the people running their program are hiding something important. Soon, they discover sunken treasure in a British ship and find they're not the only ones who want to keep it.
10) The buccaneers
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.
13) Captives
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When two families are kidnapped while vacationing in the Caribbean, they come to understand something of the island's political backdrop and the events that fuel their captors' actions.
14) My little island
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
A young boy goes with his best friend to visit the little Caribbean island where he was born.
15) Tar baby
Author
Language
English
Description
A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts...
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts...
Author
Series
Berenson schemes ; 1
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
18) Deep
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in the Caribbean, seventeen-year-old Morgan and thirteen-year-old Birdie, two girls whose lives are worlds apart, are brought together by the maniacal Nicholas.
19) Baby-O
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Three generations of a West Indian family gather together on a jitney that takes them and their wares to the local market.