Nightmare Island Juvenile Fiction School & Education Family - Siblings Social Themes - Friendship this Coretta Scott King Award-winning

this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel will find a home in the hearts of readers who loved Brown Girl Dreaming and As Brave as You

The critically acclaimed story of a young

has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation

Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival

and Roderick A

Nightmare Island Juvenile Fiction School & Education Family - Siblings Social Themes - Friendship this Coretta Scott King Award-winningFrom rising star Shakirah Bourne, author of Josephine Against the Sea, comes a mysterious adventure that explores one of the most chilling tales in Caribbean mythology: the faceless douen children. Twelve year old Serenity Noah has never told anyone about her recurring nightmares the haunting images of silver butterflies whose flapping wings drive away all sound, leaving only suffocating silence in their wake. Her parents already favor her "perfect"