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1) The jumbies
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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.
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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.
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Series
Jumbies ; 3
Language
English
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." --
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Dive ; 1
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English
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Description
Four kids spend the summer deep sea diving and make a dangerous discovery.
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English
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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.
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English
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"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."--
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Series
Cay ; 2
Language
English
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.
11) Captives
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Language
English
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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.
12) Tar baby
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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...
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Berenson schemes ; 1
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English
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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.
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Series
Zombie chasers ; 6
Language
English
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Description
"The zombie chasers head to the high seas in search of a cure for the rezombified nation"--
18) The getaway
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid ; 12
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley and his family escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation during Christmas break. Unfortunately sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venomous creatures all threaten their vacation.
19) Peter Duck
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
[1932]
Language
English
Description
The Swallows and Amazons with Captain Flint in charge, assisted by able seaman Peter Duck, depart on the Wild Cat, a two-masted schooner to search for buried treasure.
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English
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"Mr. Pennypacker is cheap. But Mrs. Pennypacker has wrestled money for a vacation from his tightfisted grip, and the family is on their way to a Disney cruise. Charlie Pennypacker is thrilled to be going somewhere--an eleven story luxury cruise liner, 212-foot water slide, and an all-night buffet awaits! So Charlie thinks. The vacation is actually a Wisney cruise, which means a dilapidated fishing boat, fake Disney characters, no water slide, eggs...
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