Shaken
Eric Walters
Type:
Fiction
Categories:
Social Issues | Nature & the Natural World | Places
Themes:
Homelessness & Poverty, Weather, Caribbean & Latin America
Language:
English
Publisher:
Grade Level:
5
Age Range:
10
Accessible Format Availability:
CELA Library
Description
Fifteen-year-old Joshua has travelled from Toronto to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in order to help with a charity mission. In confronting the poverty and and injustice that surrounds him, Joshua struggles to find meaning in the cruelty of the world. And then devastation hits — and Joshua finds himself at the very centre of a catastrophic earthquake. Will he be able to save himself? And, if he does, how will he find the faith and hope he needs to go on?
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